Sentences with phrase «pursuit of happiness does»

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In a review co-authored in 2011 by Yale psychologist June Gruber, researchers found that the pursuit of happiness can actually lead to negative outcomes — not because surrounding yourself with positive people, mastering a skill, smiling, getting therapy or practicing self - governance aren't conducive to happiness, in and of themselves, but because «when you're doing it with the motivation or expectation that these things ought to make you happy, that can lead to disappointment and decreased happiness.»

Most of this research backs what happiness gurus have been telling us since before R. H. Tawney wrote about The Acquisitive Society a century ago: that the constant pursuit of more and better stuff — higher salaries, privilege and the baubles that accompany success — doesn't result in increased happiness.

Peter Lawler says: I don't agree with Yuval that «the pursuit of happiness» is replaced by «collective effort.»

please do so as it gives you whatever comfort as life is the pursuit of happiness.

... No, this has been the feeling of most people all along, that you do nt push your religious beliefs on others at the cost of taking away their right to the pursuit of happiness.

He does not accept that the real greater good comes from the efforts of individuals exercising their freedom and that government exists principally to enable them to pursue their inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Next we will have NAMBLA (The North American Man / Boy Love Association) demanding there right to pursuit of happiness, where does it stop?

The Declaration of Independence joins in a single phrase «liberty» and «the pursuit of happiness,» and, so doing, marries two ideas which belong together.

And Locke and Rousseau do agree, after all, that the consequence of satisfying one human need is to create another and more difficult need to satisfy, and so people become increasingly rational and industrious in their increasingly Historical pursuits of happiness.

A reasonable Darwinian objection to the pursuit of happiness that ends only in death being natural is that there's no explanation for members of one species alone not being hardwired, in effect, to be happy by doing what comes naturally.

Most Thoughtful (nominated by Chip Monck): Peter Rollins with «Please Give Me Freedom From the Pursuit of Happiness» «The type of oppression that comes from our ability to pursue what we want does not allow us to maintain this inner protest.

At very least, the command of Jesus to «take up the cross», does not allow the «pursuit of happiness» to be our priority.

Those people have just as much right to the pursuit of happiness as we heteros do, as long as they are adults.

Of course, the «be nice» commandment does not extend to those who oppose one's political ideology or stand in the way of the pursuit individual self - interest or «happiness» at the expense of otherOf course, the «be nice» commandment does not extend to those who oppose one's political ideology or stand in the way of the pursuit individual self - interest or «happiness» at the expense of otherof the pursuit individual self - interest or «happiness» at the expense of otherof others.

I don't care what a person's beliefs are, until my rights are infringed — rights of expression, to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

My point is we're all the same, we just happen to be born into different circumstances but for me, that doesn't change anyone's right to life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness!!!

He is the author of numerous articles and chapters and has written four books: When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along (HarperCollins) The Marriage Makeover: Finding Happiness in Imperfect Harmony (St. Martin's Press); The Lazy Husband: How to Get Men to Do More Parenting and Housework (St. Martin's Press); and Married with Twins: Life, Love and the Pursuit of Marital Harmony.

People in Brownsville didn't give up their right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

People should simply do the right thing, which is to stop being selfish and allow everyone access to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Yes, it sounds downright un-American, but study after study has revealed a surprising truth about the pursuit of happiness: None of the stuff we think will lift our spirits — new cars, new homes, even winning the lottery — actually does the trick in the long term.

The pursuit of happiness has concerned humankind, likely, since time began, and although we have many more opportunities today than did our ancestors, living has also become infinitely more complex.

Listening to this song makes me want to drive off into the California sun and chase the sea breeze, along the coast (but seeing as gas is $ 4 + a gallon, I don't see that realistically happening any time soon... eff): Pursuit Of Happiness (cover) by Lissie

«The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it.

I personally know that just because I choose Ukranian women, as my vehicle of relationship choice, it doesn't mean that I will stop using common sense in pursuit of my own happiness.

Either way, I found digging into the past of Ahmad and Marie to be a gripping case study in the damage that can be done when justifying the pursuit of personal happiness, regardless of its cost to others.

Although a little lengthy and it does have trouble wrapping up, this pure drama plays similar to the 2006 pic The Pursuit of Happiness, which starred Will Smith.

0:00 — Intro 4:05 — Headlines: Karl Urban is the New Judge Dredd, Sam Worthington to Star in Commando Remake, Terminator 3 - D Animated Remake, Lights Camera Jackson: The - 11 Year - Old Film Critic 20:35 — Review: The Expendables 57:45 — Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World 1:47:30 — Trailer Trash: Skyline, Enter the Void, Unstoppable 2:03:30 — Other Stuff We Watched: BBC's Sherlock, Man v Food: Season 3, Lock Up, 12th & Delaware, Marooned, Billion Dollar Brain, Cropsey, Johnny Handsome, Until the Light Takes Us, And the Pursuit of Happiness, The Last Lovecraft, Mad Monkey Kung Fu, Standard Operating Procedure, Spartan, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Cobra 3:05:45 — Junk Mail: Film Junk Mega Mix, Favourite and Best Actors, Devil Trailer, Movies with Right Wing Agendas, TIFF Tips 3:26:20 — Twitter Poll: Why did Scott Pilgrim Fail at the Box Office?

And that's the great gift of early retirement: One is able to supplant pursuits that don't offer them happiness, meaning and purpose with pursuits that do.

Famous as the birthplace of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, Philadelphia delivers one destination, five counties and countless things to do: fascinating museums, vibrant parks, national historic sites and famous (and delicious) food.

As Ryback explains, the meeting was approved in a U.N. resolution last year recognizing that «the pursuit of happiness is a fundamental human goal» and «the gross domestic product [G.D.P.] does not adequately reflect the happiness and well - being of people....»

THERE IS NOTHING IN THE CONSTITUTION to prevent someone from doing something that «doesn't harm anyone else»; in other words, the whole idea of «life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness» is pretty much embodied in «not paying out for a lifetime to a group of bankers and their minions» in order to have a dwelling.

Kalman also does a monthly column in the New York Times called «And the Pursuit of Happiness,» where she tells a simple tale with drawn text and lovely illustrations.

Allowing equal rights to «life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness» to all groups of people, does nothing to diminish the rights of those who already have those privileges.

In an email exchange — I don't believe they have phones in Canada — the author said the story is about the pursuit of happiness: «I think Joe needed to figure things out.