happiness

This book focuses on being happy and suggests ways to have happy feelings.

Mikko the hedgehog is perfectly content living in his garden until Grandfather Tarek suggests that he should accomplish something important in order to be happy like the other animals.

Depicts the author's one-year project to fulfill her dream for happiness by focusing on the everyday things in life that really matter. Chronicles her effort to improve her life by tackling a new set of principles and resolutions each month.

Examines ten ideas from ancient civilizations that still apply to modern life, discussing how each idea originated and what impact it has had on world history and development.

The author, leading spokesman for the scientifically based Positive Psychology movement, provides an understanding of positive emotions and how to increase them, and argues that authentic happiness comes from identifying and cultivating fundamental strengths and using them everyday in work, love, play, and parenting.

Sophie has turned her negativity into success with her misfortune cookies, which are dipped in bitter chocolate and stuffed with negative sayings that her customers love, but when her ex-fianc? returns to town and is shocked by Sophie's negative outlook, he challenges her to find happiness in her life--a challenge Sophie takes on with surprising results.

Tessa King returns to London after a five-week vacation ready to move on with her life and looks to her friends and family to try and figure out what it means to be truly happy and content.

Fifteen-year-old Gia decides her natural beauty and talent are not enough to make her sophomore dreams come true, but after a makeover, date with a football player, and a spot on the Hi-Steppers dance squad disappoint, Gia realizes a new truth about happiness.