Sharon Molerus Creative Commons License Public Domain Pictures To fully understand contentment, you must realize its definition and basis and how it shifts focus over the life cycle from personal ...

She was talking about an inside job. What kind of journey would we be on if our goal was inner peace, calmness, serenity, enlightenment and, yes, contentment. I need to be reminded of that daily.

In his book The Hacking of the American Mind, Lustig explains that society has conflated happiness, pleasure, and contentment, leading to widespread unhappiness. Our relentless pursuit of more—w ...

However, that’s not what contentment is. I don’t usually do this, but I’m going to quote the Merriam-Webster Dictionary entry for contentment here: “Freedom from worry or restlessness ...

Contentment is less common in the U.S., where striving for the American dream makes us one of the most ambitious countries on Earth. So is all this striving impacting our happiness? According to ...

But there was one emotion that didn’t behave like all the others. It was different. The emotion was contentment, and while we were working on translating our study, our guide, Dr. Dorji Wangchuk, ...

The relentless pursuit of happiness often overshadows the more subtle yet profound emotional state of contentment. While happiness may be a fleeting high, contentment is the gentle hum of ...