Private affair

• Statistics are irrelevant to the journey one travels alone.
  
  
• Research tools and concepts are inadequate to describe the fullness and complexity of the profound human experience that is grief.

From the New York Times readers

Books on Well-Being and Happiness

• Bok, D. (2010). The politics of happiness: What government can learn from the new research on well-being. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Diener, E., Kahneman, D., & Helliwell, J. (2010). International differences in well-being. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  
• Rath, T., & Harter, J. K. (2010). Wellbeing: The five essential elements. New York, NY: Gallup Press.
• Sirgy, M.J. (2002). The psychology of quality of life. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.