AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan long ago dispensed with the notion of gross national product as a gauge of well-being. The king decreed that his people would aspire to ...

Texas is the 39th happiest state in the nation, a study released Tuesday by WalletHub found. To determine which were the happiest, WalletHub examined the 50 states across three areas: emotional and ...

Introduced in the 1970s, the Gross National Happiness (GNH) philosophy has become a beacon of light for Bhutan, a country of ...

Maybe it's the heat and humidity. Or maybe it's due to a slow economy. But for whatever reason, many of the unhappiest states in the U.S. are in the South, according to a new ranking. The states were ...

Ha Vinh, the former program director of the Gross National Happiness Center, debuts with a novel program on how to build happier communities, offering a “step-by-step approach to cultivating and ...

Jewel is a multiplatinum-selling singer/songwriter who’s been delivering soulful tunes since her ‘90s hits including "Who Will Save Your Soul" and "You Were Meant for Me” catapulted her to stardom.

The pursuit of happiness is as old as consciousness itself, but the actual desire to be happy seems to be burning brighter than ever before, especially for young professionals. For example, Harvard’s ...