The book here presented offers an overview of happiness and disasters are conceptualized in eight chapters in different academic disciplines relevant to have a review on social and psychological content "Morality; Emotions; Mental Health; Ethics; Wellbeing, Virtue; Resilience and Social Knowledge" that arise in responding to disasters from the perspective of several fundamental normative approaches in moral and political philosophy. In this introduction, we explain the rationale behind the volume at hand against the backdrop of the existing state of the art in research related to disasters and disaster bioethics. While you can't control your experiences, you can manage your explanations. "Authentic happiness derives from raising the bar for yourself, not rating yourself against others." "Curing the negatives does not produce the positives." The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.