“Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness, therefore, is not about making it to the peak of the mountain, nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.”

I’ve found this nugget of wisdom on the website of Tal Ben-Shahar. He is an author and lecturer at Harvard University and currently teaches the largest course at Harvard on “Positive Psychology”. You can find 23 lecture videos and lecture notes for this course free on the net.

If you are interested in Positive Psychology: Dr. Ben-Shahar has 13 free articles and 20 newspaper articles on his site (The New York Post: “HAPPINESS 101″, The London Times: “Harvard flocks to see the guru of happiness”, The Crimson: “The Science of Smiling”, The New York Times: “Happiness Is a Warm Gun”).

Psychology Today offers interesting articles about the subject:

Happy reading!