Stories of Happy People

Stories of Happy People

Author: Lars Gustafsson

Publisher: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780811209779

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Gustafsson, Stories of Happy People. Ten short stories map the range of human contentment.


How We Choose to Be Happy

How We Choose to Be Happy

Author: Rick Foster

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-06-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 039952990X

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Now featuring new research and the most current information on the science of happiness, this book presents an outline of the nine choices happy people consistently make. Also included are tools for self-assessment to allow readers to measure happiness-and to find out what might be holding them back from having more of it. Insightful, intimate, and inspiring, How We Choose to Be Happy lets readers learn by example, and take substantial steps toward joining the ranks of the extremely happy.


What Happy People Know

What Happy People Know

Author: Dan Baker, Ph.D.

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2004-01-19

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0312321597

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The six happiness tools in this guide include: practicing appreciation; making choices; building personal power; leading with your strengths; employing constructive language; and living multidimensionally.


The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People

The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People

Author: David Niven, PhD

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0061739286

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Scientists and academics have spent entire careers investigating what makes people happy. But hidden in obscure scholarly journals and reports, their research is all too often inaccessible to ordinary people. Now the bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series distills the scientific findings of over a thousand of the most important studies on happiness into easy-to-digest nuggets of advice. Each of the hundred practices is illustrated with a clear example and illuminated by a straightforward explanation of the science behind it to show you how to transform a ho-hum existence into a full and happy life. Believe in yourself: Across all ages, and all groups, a solid belief in one's own abilities increases life satisfaction by about 40 percent, and makes us happier both in our home lives and in our work lives. Turn off your TV: Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.


Happy People Are Annoying

Happy People Are Annoying

Author: Josh Peck

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2022-03-15

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0063073633

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A wonderfully candid memoir from one of the most recognizable faces of a generation, actor, writer, Youtuber, and television superstar, Josh Peck. In his warm and inspiring book, Josh reflects on the many stumbles and silver linings of his life and traces a zigzagging path to redemption. Written with such impressive detail and aching honesty, Happy People are Annoying is full of surprising life lessons for anyone seeking to accept their past and make peace with the complicated face in the mirror. Josh Peck rose to near-instant fame when he starred for four seasons as the comedic center of Nickelodeon’s hit show Drake & Josh. However, while he tried to maintain his role as the funniest, happiest kid in every room, Josh struggled alone with the kind of rising anger and plummeting confidence that quietly took over his life. For the first time, Josh reflects on his late teens and early twenties. Raised by a single mother, and coming of age under a spotlight that could be both invigorating and cruel, Josh filled the cratering hole in his self-worth with copious amounts of food, television, drugs, and all of the other trappings of young stardom. Until he realized the only person standing in his way...was himself. Today, with a string of lead roles on hit television shows and movies, and one of the most enviable and dedicated fanbases on the internet, Josh Peck is more than happy, he’s finally, enthusiastically content. Happy People are Annoying is the culmination of years of learning, growing, and finding bright spots in the scary parts of life. Written with the kind of humor, strength of character, and unwavering self-awareness only someone who has mastered their ego can muster, this memoir reminds us of the life-changing freedom on the other side of acceptance.


Seven Habits of Extremely Happy People

Seven Habits of Extremely Happy People

Author: Tanya Gold

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780578774190

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If you have ever spent any of your time trying to "find" happiness, this book is the treasure you have been looking for! It as much about enjoying the journey as it is the end result. Your path to happiness will take work, although, each step is fairly simple. This is a refreshing book, filled with many anecdotal stories, research, and tools and activities that will help you navigate happiness as a way of life rather than something that comes and goes, seemingly without your control. Dr. Gold uses proven techniques from leading experts, as well as the novel approaches she developed, to demonstrate and teach you how to generate joy and maintain it as a lifestyle that leads to sustained results.In 7 Habits of Extremely Happy People, you will learn to: BE HAPPY NOW despite the challenges; live life as an adventure, not a rerun, using Dr. Gold's mastermind techniques; and biohack your life by using Dr. Gold's BAC method to live optimally doing what YOU want to do (not just what others want you to do).


Happy Stories!

Happy Stories!

Author: Will Bowen

Publisher:

Published: 2014-01-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781477848241

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We all face adversity, setbacks, and stress in our everyday lives. In Happy Stories!, you will learn from people who have faced various hardships and have chosen to achieve happiness in spite of their circumstances.


This Is Happiness

This Is Happiness

Author: Niall Williams

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2019-12-03

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1635574218

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST and REAL SIMPLE A profound and enchanting new novel from Booker Prize-longlisted author Niall Williams about the loves of our lives and the joys of reminiscing. You don't see rain stop, but you sense it. You sense something has changed in the frequency you've been living and you hear the quietness you thought was silence get quieter still, and you raise your head so your eyes can make sense of what your ears have already told you, which at first is only: something has changed. The rain is stopping. Nobody in the small, forgotten village of Faha remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard was a condition of living. Now--just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of electricity--it is stopping. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is standing outside his grandparents' house shortly after the rain has stopped when he encounters Christy for the first time. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed. This is the story of all that was to follow: Christy's long-lost love and why he had come to Faha, Noel's own experiences falling in and out of love, and the endlessly postponed arrival of electricity--a development that, once complete, would leave behind a world that had not changed for centuries. Niall Williams' latest novel is an intricately observed portrait of a community, its idiosyncrasies and its traditions, its paradoxes and its inanities, its failures and its triumphs. Luminous and otherworldly, and yet anchored with deep-running roots into the earthy and the everyday, This Is Happiness is about stories as the very stuff of life: the ways they make the texture and matter of our world, and the ways they write and rewrite us.


The Geography of Bliss

The Geography of Bliss

Author: Eric Weiner

Publisher: Twelve

Published: 2008-01-03

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0446511072

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Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.


Happy Ever After

Happy Ever After

Author: Paul Dolan

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2019-01-17

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0241284457

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Be ambitious; find everlasting love; look after your health ... There are countless stories about how we ought to live our lives. These narratives can make our lives easier, and they might sometimes make us happier too. But they can also trap us and those around us. In Happy Ever After, bestselling happiness expert Professor Paul Dolan draws on a wealth of evidence to bust the common myths about our sources of happiness and shows that there can be many unexpected paths to lasting happiness. Some of these might involve not going into higher education, choosing not to marry, rewarding acts rooted in self-interest and caring a little less about living forever. By freeing ourselves from the myth of the perfect life, we might each find a life worth living.