"Is God happy?"

"The question is not absurd." ... If He is not indifferent, but subject to emotion like us, He must live in a constant state of so...

At the 10 Commandments of Love Café...

... take happiness with the heartaches and go through life wearing a smile.

"Have yourself a merry little Christmas / It may be your last/ Next year we may all be living in the past."

The original lyric to "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," which I learned about after happening to catch the tail end of ...

"But I've often had the feeling that the existential dilemma is a very subjective matter..."

"... entirely depending upon the individual and the circumstances of his life, and that we 'Western intellectuals' with our wre...

"I don't really care about politics. What I care about is how the pissant goings-on of political people affects the important things in this life..."

"... such as family, comfort, peace, security, art, beauty, freedom and happiness. And all of those things are further imperiled by las...

"If my rule-breaking is ethical and safe (and Idaho-legal), why does it annoy anyone?"

Asks Randy Cohen , the original NYT "ethicist," who admits to treating stop signals as yield signals when he's on his bicycle....

Why are conservatives so much happier than liberals?

Studies show that they are (or at least think they are or say they are). But why? My first guess, without reading on in the article is that...

"'I just want to be happy' is a hole cut out of the floor and covered with a rug."

"Because once you say it, the implication is that you're not. The 'I just want to be happy' bear trap is that until you def...

"Consumerism Leads to Depression, Study Finds."

"We found that irrespective of personality, in situations that activate a consumer mindset, people show the same sorts of problematic p...

"And... that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do."

"All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny." The Director said sententiously. A quote, IM...

"I have told myself a hundred times that I would be happy if I were as stupid as my neighbor, and yet I would want no part of that kind of happiness."

"But yet, upon reflection, it seems that to prefer reason to happiness is to be quite insane."

"I broke my theme. Something made me laugh."

And Meade says: "Then you didn't break your theme. Something made you laugh. Something made you happy. Something made you smile....

"5 Things You Think Will Make You Happy (But Won't)."

You already know what they are going to be , don't you? It's interesting to be able to think something while simultaneously knowing ...

"Happiness is more like knowledge than like belief."

"There are lots of things we believe but don’t know. Knowledge is not just up to you, it requires the cooperation of the world beyond y...

"A large Gallup poll has found that by almost any measure, people get happier as they get older..."

"The telephone survey, carried out in 2008, covered more than 340,000 people nationwide, ages 18 to 85..." On the global measure, ...

"The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness."

"By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of ...

"Romney's Religion of Happiness vs. Gingrich's Religion of Grievance."

A Sarah Posner headline over at Religion Dispatches. Excerpt: In talking about the Declaration of Independence at a campaign rally..., Mitt...

"I think he showed me a cover of a magazine that said 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.'"

"It was a gun magazine. I just thought it was a fantastic, insane thing to say. A warm gun means you just shot something." The ref...

"Does Rick Santorum hate freedom and happiness?"

Asks a WaPo blogger (Allen McDuffee) , after reading what Cato Institute Executive Vice President David Boaz said: [Santorum] criticizes the...

The Happiness Bank.

"If you've got a moment of Happiness you don't want to lose - then sign up with me and get it registered while it's still f...