Celebrated bestselling author Brenda Barnaby spent a year investigating what happiness means to many different types of people in a variety of different places, and this book is a compilation of what she discovered on her journey. A series of real-life stories, it offers unique perspectives on happiness that span across both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, often relating to the values that were developed while in search of a higher state of well-being. Each of the stories is annotated by Barnaby, with comments from the storyteller, how Barnaby and the storyteller came to meet, and what the story can concretely offer readers.