Yes! I thought, as I read these lines from the Russian American poet Joseph Brodsky in a 1989 love poem, “A Song.” There’s ...

If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.” For centuries, the greatest thinkers have suggested the same thing: Happiness is found in helping others. For it is in giving that we ...

We want to be connected and useful to other people. What are some of the practices that stand out as actually helping people feel true happiness ... I run through that I write down.

We used to have a very different understanding ... and teaches philosophy at N.Y.U. “Getting what you want in life — that’s happiness, bro,” Saxon Ratliff tells his younger brother in ...