Essays on Happiness

One of the secrets to happiness? Pets! Whether you travel a lot and only have time for a fish or are a proud dog parent, pets help to keep us happy. They think the world of their owners and are non-judgmental bundles of joy that...

‘I was 70 million dollars and I was depressed because I wanted to have 100′, a friend told me a few years ago when we had eaten after a conference in New York. He had literally collected tens of millions of dollars, but he thought...

Prosocial spending can be defined as the act of spending ones money and/or time on other people. The positive effect that prosocial spending has on wellbeing has been a widely researched phenomenon, and it seems as though many agree on their conclusions. The following essay...

In this literature review I am going to write about three articles which deal with how or rather on whom one should spend his or her money to maximize the happiness one receives from spending it. It is a topic which I think is rather...

Our deep-down happiness is an individual work, but some of the people believe that happiness depends on other’s actions and behavior. This belief is the reflection in the story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by LeGuin. The author describes Omelas was a perfect...

Would you be able to live with yourself if you knew your happiness was dependent on the suffering of a child? In the short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, written by Ursula K. Le Guin in 1973 this exact question is asked...

Morality and happiness are among the many issues that have troubled moral philosophers and scholars over the years. Most communities in the world value morality and often relate it happiness explaining the reason why the topics of morality and happiness are a major concern to...

After reading “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin’s, one question that catches my eyes was that. What does the story reveal to us about our happiness as a society? In order to answer this question, we have too first...

The definition and understanding of happiness has been a matter of discussion for thousands of years. Humans tried to classify and categorise the most desirable of emotions continually and never managed to reach a mutual agreement about its meaning. The reason for that is the...

The article “Does Art Therapy Work? Identifying the Activate Ingredients of Art Therapy Efficacy” states that art, itself, can help clients cope with emotional pain. Art can effectively improve one’s mental state. Author Lynn Kapitan, editor of Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy...