How People Get Happy - 7 Secrets to Finding Happiness
Six leading authors, performers and thinkers—and one NYC taxi driver—share their secrets to finding joy.
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the May 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
Photo: Courtesy of Elizabeth Alexander
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PhD, inaugural poet, essayist, and Yale professor "It always works to take a walk when I am blue. Letting pace and breath govern the fretful body calms the mind and rinses it of worry—the endorphins take the edge off anxiety. There is no walk that has not left me better able to face even the gravest of woes. And to be a small creature among trees, sidewalks, trucks, oceans, mountains—wherever the walk takes place—puts problems in proper perspective." |
