Book Titles

…most men and women grow more anxious as they age: A lifetime of learning fears has made them proficient at anxiety.

…the real danger of pursuit of stuff may be that most stuff is harmless, and therefore, utterly seductive.

It may be that people grow steadily better off, yet seemingly no happier, because there is a baseline anxiety in all our hearts, and that anxiety is the fear of death.

Look for unhappiness and you will surely find it, as unhappiness is a condition anyone can enter. Look for meaning and you may be tested.

We should be grateful and forgiving… New research suggest gratitude and forgiveness are in our self-interest.

…positive psychology finds that people who take a grateful attitude toward life, counting their blessings rather than inventorying their complaints, tend to be healthier, happier, and more successful than others.

Staying married is one of the success secrets of the well-off.

Forgiveness, gratitude, conviviality, and related mental states are active conditions that require effort to achieve. You can have these worldviews, but you’ve got to work at it.

Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.

Both contemporary psychological research and age-old common sense suggest that a feeling of purpose improves a person’s experience of life.