Positive Psychology identifies five character strengths that are most related to happiness:
ZEST | CURIOSITY| HOPE | GRATITUDE | LOVE
“What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life” Bertrand Russell, philosopher.
I recall being in 8th grade in a convent school in India and our principal (Sister Elisabetha) had walked into our class one day. She addressed us with her kind demeanor and beatific smile which as usual did not fail to warm the cockles of one’s heart (there actually aren’t any cockles of your heart, but the term may come from the fact that the chambers of the heart resemble a mollusk’s shell, also called a cockle. www.wisegeek.org).