Just stopping
by from the Happiness is Homemade link party.
I'm stopping
by from the Happiness at Mid Life Linkup!
Not exact matches
According to a study
by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues
from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their
happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.
By all accounts,
from the anecdotal to the rigorously research - backed, having a positive outlook can have a huge impact on your
happiness, productivity and even your business.
By focusing on leading
from the HEART, you will start your day with
happiness and end it with gratitude no matter what happens.
Both quotes come
from a blog post
by coach Linda Gabriel on
happiness site Tiny Buddha.
A recent study led
by Professor Andrew Oswald, Dr. Eugenio Proto, and Dr. Daniel Sgroi
from the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick investigated the link between
happiness and productivity.
Happiness is constituted not only
by appropriating the public world
from which activity arises but also
by contributing to the public world toward which activity ends.
They had one supreme theory: that the perfect beauty and
happiness of cities and of human life was to be brought about
by more factories; they had a mania for factories; there was nothing they would not do to cajole a factory away
from another city; and they were never more piteously embittered than when another city cajoled one away
from them.
Far
from pretending to be constituting a world ex nihilo, the framers appeal to «self - evident truths» such as the assumed fact that all are created equal and «endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of
Happiness.»
De te fabula: the story is the story of each one of us, exiled
by false self - seeking
from the garden of human obedience and hence
from human
happiness into the strange land where we seek only our own way and hence lose our intended
happiness.
(For instance, on the very day on which I write this page, the post brings me some aphorisms
from a worldly-wise old friend in Heidelberg which may serve as a good contemporaneous expression of Epicureanism: «
By the word «
happiness» every human being understands something different.
To lift the economic burdens which depress life and spoil opportunity, to liberate folk
from the slavery of their diseases, to set men free
by education
from the Town of Stupidity, which, as Bunyan rightly says, is only four degrees north of the City of Destruction itself — all these endeavors to give persons a chance to be their best selves are crusades for human emancipation and
happiness.
Peoples can and need to struggle together, inspired
by their religions and moral ideals to safeguard themselves and the world
from such dangers and improve their quality of life according to the genuine values that can give hope and
happiness to all.
Yet the
happiness of the boy served
by the tree differs
from the tree's own
happiness of service.
Its narcotic effect stems
from the fact that it teaches an acceptance of earthly unhappiness
by holding out a promise of transcendental
happiness.
A cure for cancer or heart disease or Alzheimer's is not a cure for death
from social pathologies or a guarantee that life without illness and disease will necessarily be marked
by greater
happiness.
But the Christian thinker can be both —
by finding a «secular» confirmation for his belief in the God whose suffering love shares in the world's pain while at the same time God's triumphant joy is in part derived
from the
happiness which the world can know.
The more commonplace
happinesses which we get are «reliefs,» occasioned
by our momentary escapes
from evils either experienced or threatened.
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 prot
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 prot
from our ability to pursue what we want does not allow us to maintain this inner protest.
Examine the question of freedom
from literary, theological and political perspectives with attention to the relationship between freedom and human
happiness (informed
by understandings of law, sin, and grace) and the relationship between freedom and tradition.
The simplest moral philosophy of doing unto others as you have them do unto you is readily understandable
by all normal people, just as a pleasure shared is not halved but doubled but, to the amoralist, the psychopath it has no meaning as they have no empathy and feel neither the
happiness nor the sadness of others, they are genetically abnormal suffering
from an actual and real physical defect.
He argued that such a life would have
happiness as its end, but he meant something very different
from what we mean
by happiness.
Yes, but the immigrants assimilated into the larger American society
by adopting our founding principles - life, liberty, the pursuit of
happiness - not
by insisting society adapt to the cultures they came
from.
Yet
by seeking to assert ultimate control over creation independently of God, we will only manage to create more oppression, division, pollution and alienation
from his own
happiness.
The Pursuit of
Happiness: Who Is Happy and Why
by David G. Myers Morrow, 288 pages, $ 20 With almost a hundred pages of notes, the reader may expect
from the professor of social psychology at Michigan's Hope College a tome of off - putting technicality.
There was first the great revolt of Thomas Münzer, which aimed to establish a truly Christian state where all would be equal; for, Münzer declared, the children of God are entitled to
happiness in this world and to full enjoyment of all the goods of Nature which God gives to man; and they are kept
from enjoying what is rightfully theirs
by the rich and powerful who have cornered the goods of the world.
While life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness are valuable human ideals in themselves, they are
by no means «God - given rights,» are not guaranteed in Scripture, and when such values are divorced
from the understanding that we will answer to God, these rights become some of the greatest instruments of death, enslavement, and sadness the world has ever seen.
Further, experience has shown that theological education defined as clergy education suffers
from the «
happiness paradox»: that is, just as we can not achieve
happiness by a course of life defined
by the pursuit of
happiness, so we can not achieve the education of superlative church leaders
by a course of study defined
by the roles and tasks of church leadership.
Nor can it interest me otherwise than historically that Socrates» or Prodicus» doctrine was this or that; for the Truth in which I rest was within me, and came to light through myself, and not even Socrates could have given it to me, as little as the driver can pull the load for the horses, though he may help them
by applying the lash.3 My relation to Socrates or Prodicus can not concern me with respect to my eternal
happiness, for this is given me retrogressively through my possession of the Truth, which I had
from the beginning without knowing it.
If we now suppose this feeling of unity to be taught as a religion, and the whole force of education, of institutions, and of opinion directed, as it once was in the case of religion, to make every person grow up
from infancy surrounded on all sides both
by the profession and the practice of it, I think that no one who can realize this conception will feel any misgiving about the sufficiency of the ultimate sanction for the
happiness morality.
When Adam and Eve ate
from the forbidden tree, they were attempting to acquire means of defining their own destiny and mastering their own lives, rather than having their
happiness and telos defined
by their communion with God.
Calls to flee
from the imminent destruction are accompanied
by demonstrations of how viewers may find
happiness in this life and material wealth which is God's blessing to those who trust him.
We hold these truths to be self - evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed
by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them seem most likely to effect their safety and
happiness.
Missing
from this, or perhaps purposely excised, is the Christian understanding of marriage as an institution established
by God, a sacramental reality in the Church, ordered to the
happiness and spiritual growth of the spouses and to the procreation of children for the good of society.
But I am often surprised and perplexed that men who wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal, and are endowed
by their Creator with the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness, could so quickly seek to take the first of those rights — the right of life —
from others.
Swisse is in a unique position of having Chinese owners but an Australian brand, after the business was acquired in two tranches for a total of $ 1.7 billion in 2015 and 2016
by a company now called Health &
Happiness after changing its name
from Biostime International.
From 2005 -2014 we have sacrificed our
happiness for the club who continously lied 2 us now we should demand the club makin us happy
by giving us trophys even if it means sacking the manager
When, or if, this transfer deal is done the
happiness of we Arsenal fans may soon be tempered
by the news that we the Gunners will have to do without the services of our star striker Alexis Sanchez
from now on, but I still feel that it would be better for us to sign a replacement for the Chilean before he leaves.
It gives me great
happiness because I was welcomed here with open arms
by everyone at the club and the supporters right
from my first day.
We aim to inspire generational change
by reaching students
from disadvantaged homes so they can experience the
happiness that can be achieved
by being a kind and caring person.
No fake smiles
from the kids, but true genuine interaction and
happiness that you can feel
by looking at the photos.»
The first part of this post was written
by guest contributor and parenting coach, Dana Hirt, who consciously set out to protect her three young children
from the negative effects of divorce and in doing so, had a «good» divorce which paved the way to her own future
happiness and the well - being of her entire family.
Begin
by acknowledging your child's perception of what happened, says Chansky, who is the author of Freeing Your Child
from Negative Thinking: Powerful, Practical Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Resilience, Flexibility, and
Happiness (buy
from Amazon).
Aside
from physical fitness and beauty maintenance, a return to sports and hobbies of youth inspires the
happiness reminiscent of days gone
by.
If you start
by saying «Well, even if you hate gym, you have to go,» you've already lost your audience, says Tamar Chansky, Ph.D., a clinical child psychologist in Philadelphia and the author of Freeing Your Child
from Negative Thinking: Powerful, Practical Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Resilience, Flexibility and
Happiness.
If parents want their children to find
happiness in life
from a wife or a husband, they must look at the message they are sending
by the example of their own marriage.
How about this wonderful rocket pack made
from old bottles
by Homemade
Happiness?
Ideally, there should be a mutual strategy in place — agreed upon
by both parents — to prevent the emotional roller - coaster
from hindering the
happiness and well - being of your child.
In the letter dated 14 July 2017 and signed
by SERAP executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni the organization said that, «Public interest is not well served when government officials such as former governors, deputies supplement their emoluments in their current positions with life pensions and emoluments drawn
from their states» meagre resources, and thereby prioritising their private or personal interests over and above the greatest
happiness of the greatest number.»