What's the basis of a good life? Jill Suttie reviews three new books about happiness, forgiveness, and gratitude.

IDEAS The ‘pursuit of happiness’ may sound good. But what if that’s the wrong approach? When I was growing up in a striving immigrant household, happiness wasn’t necessarily a ...

Has the happiness frenzy of the past few years left you sad and anxious? Herein we report the surest ways to find well-being.

The author, Jeffrey Rosen, shows us how they understood the pursuit of happiness as a quest for being good, not for feeling good. What did happiness mean in the 1700s? What does happiness mean today?

I believe they will make our communities better, and at least establish favorable conditions for the pursuit of happiness and many other good things. Whether that pursuit actually reaches its goal ...

I’m no longer in the pursuit of happiness for the same reason I’m not in the pursuit of the C-sharp. It doesn’t matter if one note might be harder to come by than the others.

Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being. If you have a successful marriage, it doesn’t matter how many professional setbacks you endure, you ...