WENDELL BERRY

Throughout our life, we all have a common purpose: to be happy. Happiness is the ultimate level that has to be reached in order to perceive our journey on Earth as having been a successful one. However, finding happiness can prove extremely challenging, as individuals tend to set too high standar...

"We are like pellets of incense falling on the altar. Some collapse sooner, others later, but it makes no difference."-Marcus Aurelius

• Measuring ourselves against others makes acceptance difficult, because we want what they have, not what we happen to have. But that makes no ...

The common email greeting is often an empty, yet necessary, formality. And these generic, surface-level greetings have probably harmed our relationships in some instances.

Rather than to mention the context in which we're all living, we should learn to be honest about what we're g...