But it may be that the maximal case on the closed dimensions would suffice to furnish the standard for the open ones, that, e.g., perfection of knowledge and goodness is in some sense the «measure» of
degrees of happiness, even though the latter can not be absolutely but only relatively perfect (R but not A).
A large
degree of your happiness depends on it.
This is not the only study to suggest that the degree of personal responsibility we take for our actions can determine our health and
degree of happiness.
Studies have shown that a person's ability to savor experiences predicts
their degree of happiness.
For example, respondents were asked, «Please indicate
the degree of happiness, all things considered, of your marriage.»
No matter how much more than $ 75,000 per year a person makes, they don't report any greater
degree of happiness.
Time has a way of healing, my sanity is still intact and I have uncovered a very good
degree of happiness with which I am happy.
They say that Costa Ricans share an undeniable love of nature and their environment, which has culminated into
a degree of happiness amongst its people that is not seen in too many other countries throughout the world.
A high quality mattress is one of the key elements for having a good night of sleep, a healthy lifestyle and a higher
degree of happiness.
Most individuals are capable of reporting
their degree of happiness or unhappiness, this judgment not being equivalent to a simple sum of their recent affective reactions.
Item number 6 in the scale «
The degree of happiness, everything considered, in your marriage.»
Not exact matches
Ultimately, I have realized that success is not a measure
of your salary, title, or
degree, but the impact you have others and the collective
happiness of the people you touch.»
They chose to program their minds in such a way that they are able to achieve a higher
degree of success and
happiness.
And then I realized that many spiritually - minded persons were actually demonstrating a
degree of stability,
happiness and usefulness which I should have sought myself.
In large measure, however, these relations are not preconditions for but properly a part
of the public world, i.e., they yield
happiness beyond some minimal
degree because nature is, as it were, taken into the human community.
Reinforcing in advance the claim I have put forth at the end
of Part Two, Hartshorne went on to point out: «Just as the Stoics said the ideal was to have good will toward all but not in such fashion as to depend in any [221]
degree for
happiness upon their fortunes or misfortunes, so Christian theologians, who scarcely accepted this idea in their ethics, nevertheless adhered to it in characterizing God.»
On a somewhat deeper but still visible plane the framers saw that the originality
of the novus ordo — what made it, in fact, a new order — lay in the unprecedented
degree of liberty each citizen possessed to define the course
of his or her own «pursuit
of happiness.»
Happiness is a test, not only
of one's power to find in duty a privilege and not a burden, to discern redeeming elements in untoward situations; it is a test also
of the
degree to which we are achieving an inward release
of our own personalities.
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.
A person can be happy and there are any number
of degrees and kinds
of happiness, and to some extent you can detach those from what the person is happy about; similarly with painful, unpleasant experiences.
They want a sense
of belonging and a modest
degree of confidence that their life - path will bring
happiness.
I have suggested that Mill's defense
of altruism relies on a second claim that altruism contributes in some
degree to each individual's own
happiness.
A high
degree of maternal and child health is at the top
of the list
of criteria for achieving
happiness.
I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day
of November next, to be devoted by the people
of these States to the service
of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author
of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection
of the people
of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions
of His providence in the course and conclusion
of the late war; for the great
degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions
of government for our safety and
happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have
of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
«Yes, it's true that when the top 1 percent is getting a greater share
of overall income, this offsets our growing
happiness to some
degree,» he said.
Like an influenza outbreak,
happiness — and misery too — spread through social networks, affecting people through three
degrees of separation.
But the study, published Thursday in the British Medical Journal, also revealed that the subjects were affected by the
happiness of people who were as many as three
degrees removed from them.
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The report, titled «The
Happiness Index: Love and Relationships in America», reveals that 64 %
of Americans are «very happy» in their romantic relationships and just 19 % say they're unhappy to some
degree.
The survey was based on questions about their
happiness with their marriage and
degree of affection, communication and love for each other.
His characters bounce and bobble their way through a world without answers, in which they attempt to seize
happiness from the jaws
of despair with varying
degrees of success.
They point to study after study showing that Americans with college
degrees do significantly better on a wide range
of indicators: income, marriage, health,
happiness, you name it.
Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) score measures the
degree of customer
happiness with a particular product, service or interaction as indicated in a 5 - step Likert scale from Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree.
Alas the
degree of such
happiness is only limited by the depth
of your pockets it would seem.
The first study Iris Mauss and her colleagues conducted was a correlation study, using a range
of measures
of well - being and life stress over the past 18 months to test whether the
degree to which people value
happiness is associated with
happiness and well - being.
Specifically to be an attachment figure, as defined in IPARTheory, one's sense
of emotional security,
happiness, and well - being must be dependent to some
degree on the quality
of the relationship with the other person.
In a recent review linking parenting and well - being, researchers outlined a number
of these differences, and identify a wide range
of factors that affect the
degree to which parenting affects
happiness.1 Spoiler alert: It's complicated.
For instance, parents may experience lower levels
of happiness to the extent that their children elicit negative emotions and stress in their daily lives — after all, children require a huge
degree of support from parents in a myriad
of ways.
We all fit into that spectrum somewhere and to some extent our
degree of depression versus
happiness varies from hour to hour and day to day.
They also measured actual experience
of positive emotions and the
degree to which people value
happiness.