Sentences with phrase «find happiness as»

This is not the case, in fact food takes a definite back seat to themes of culture, family and identity as we follow one woman's struggle to find happiness as she is pulled between two very different worlds.

It's the time we have to get to know ourselves, heal our wounds, and find happiness as a single person.

I should say that during five years I have been on more than 12 websites of this kind, but I have found my happiness as soon as I placed my profile on dominicancupid.com.

It's ironic then that Linda finds happiness as a mother and a wife, ultimately presenting a conservative message: women should stick to their traditional roles.

But I have found some happiness as a writer, and a bit of reprieve from the ego: I write as early as possible in the day, and if I have extra time, I promote my writing and help other people with theirs.

Not exact matches

«Past research has found that people grow steadily happier as they age from adolescence to older adulthood, with happiness peaking when people reach their 60s and 70s; the moodiness of youth subsides, and maturity brings more contentment.

And, telling everyone to fake a smile as a way to find happiness?

«By engaging in meaningful conversations, we manage to impose meaning on an otherwise pretty chaotic world, and inter-personally, as you find this meaning, you bond with your interactive partner, and we know that interpersonal connection and integration is a core fundamental foundation of happiness,» Mehl told the New York Times.

A study by Harris Poll for staffing agency Spherion found that 30 % of respondents cited gratis grub as a contributor to their workplace happiness.

He and his family keep expenses relatively low by finding happiness in things that don't cost as much money, like hanging out with friends over home - cooked meals.

A Strayer survey recently found that 90 percent of Americans define success as more about happiness than power, possessions, or prestige.

And while it isn't impossible to overcome an incredibly domineering and controlling family — as you'll see — it does make finding success and happiness a lot harder.

I can use my experience I've learned as an entrepreneur and continue to push forth women into the workplace, and hope they find true success — success that brings them happiness.

[14:18] Rules of the game to succeed, but not for fulfillment [14:40] God loves diversity; same is true with people — different sources of fulfillment [14:55] Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure [16:53] We all have something different as our inner desire, you need to find what fulfills you [17:05] A cautionary tale: Robin Williams, the loss of a national treasure [18:42] He lit everybody up, except himself [19:15] Most of us live a life where we succeed but we're not truly fulfilled [20:10] Richard: Tony, what is your method for happiness?

As the research team put it, «We find that human happiness has large and positive causal effects on productivity.

As one of the world's leading experts on the connection between happiness and technology, Amy Blankson unveils five strategies that successful individuals use to find a sense of balance between technology, productivity, and wellbeing in the Digital Age.

One way to maximize your happiness is to find your flow state every day, or as often as you can.

Someone practiced in the art of finding happiness and fulfillment wherever she happens to find herself is already mostly prepared to adjust her spending downward in the face of post-retirement market declines, or defer the much - desired house because she's just not earning enough as soon as she thought she would to make it a wise purchase.

Wilcox's welcome study makes a strong case that accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior» or making an equivalent commitment to an ancient and demanding faith» is the best predictor of marital and familial happiness to be found.

And as urban neighborhoods disintegrate, the least skilled members of our society find themselves alone, deprived of a functioning community within which they can find safety, self - respect, and the challenges that are prerequisites for self - fulfillment and happiness.

The scriptural witness of the prophecies should be enough as a basis for faith; Mary did not find the Lord through her quest for his body, but only through answering his personal call to her; she must not cling to his bodily presence, for his life is now on another plane, with the Father who is the Father of all those who follow Jesus because he is his Father who has raised him from the dead; Thomas is offered sight and touch, as a gracious concession to his lack of faith; but he does not believe because of this, but because the risen Lord addresses him; and the happiness of those who have faith without sight is greater.

People would stop living for and generally being obsessed with themselves as individuals and start living as social animals for the species, finding their happiness primarily in the pleasures and duties of families and friendship.

This will, Solzhenitsyn argues, can not find happiness in serving any abstraction, even one so grandiose as heaven on earth.

But if there is a state in which the soul finds a solid enough base to rest itself on entirely and to gather its whole being into, without needing to recall the past or encroach upon the future; in which time is nothing for it; in which the present lasts forever without, however, making its duration noticed and without any trace of time's passage; without any other sentiment... except that of our existence, and having this sentiment alone fill it completely; as long as this state lasts, he who finds himself in it can call himself happy... with a sufficient, perfect, and full happiness which leaves the soul no emptiness it might feel a need to fill....

The happiness that comes, when any does come — and often enough it fails to return in an acute form, though its form is sometimes very acute — is not the simple ignorance of ill, but something vastly more complex, including natural evil as one of its elements, but finding natural evil no such stumbling - block and terror because it now sees it swallowed up in supernatural good.

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

Significantly, the case studies are not limited to those who have always followed the Church's teaching but include many couples who have used artificial contraception in the past but have since ceased to do so and found that the happiness of their marriage was greatly enhanced as a result.

religion a fancy word for ignorance and ignorance is bliss its a shame that i find happiness in the little day to day things like learning other wise maybe i could be as happy as others.

Which is why I am staring at the screen, trying for some clarity on the matter of Magic and sex as my seat companion expresses her happiness at finding the right man.

Asked to «count your many blessings, name them one by one» as the old hymn puts it, most people could find things to be thankful for — events, circumstances, persons — experiences that have yielded happiness.

Gradually, as they understood the aims of the religion and judged them by intellectual standards, they found that they could aspire to perfection and real happiness.

There she found a culture in which «the needs of the mother were considered every bit as central to family happiness as the needs of the child.»

Thee good soil represents someone who; * admits and understands that they are indebted to God because of their sinful nature * that sin equals eternal damnation hellfire * they turn to Jesus as our own saviour to abide in his covenant to fully repent of sins and become holy enduring right to the end * remember Jesus said you can not serve the world and God, or money and god you can not be a master to both * the path to eternal life is very narrow and strait and only few are able to find it you have to let go of your desires and dictates of the flesh and always embrace and find happiness serving god set your eyes on Jesus... crucify your desires..

God accepts whatever we bring to the God / person relationship — our physical and spiritual condition, personality, connection to reality, our participation in relationships, talents, inabilities, cognition, knowledge, ignorance, life journey, spiritual journey, walk about, wandering, seeking, questioning, questing, acceptance of God, rejection of God — and our emotional and mental status: hate / love, anger / peace, sadness / happiness, hurt / health, feeling lost and abandoned / feeling found and included, agitation / serenity, apathy / passion, confusion / clarity, fractures / wholeness — all of this, all of whoever we are and have ever been and every action committed or ever contemplated and every thought we ever explored or entertained or that flitted through our mind — all of this, we bring to the God / person relationship and God accepts the totality of who we are and every component that comprises who we are — as a gift.

There is a way, even when things are as light as can be, in which the life - wasting potentialities of cult - dom are never lost sight of, and in which we wind up rooting for our cult - creators to find some semblance of happiness amid the absurd wreckage of life they've unleashed.

He knows that it is spirit which sustains existence, but he knows too that the security and joy in which men live is not founded upon the power of spirit but is easily explicable as an unreflected happiness.

(CNN)- As America celebrates its birthday on July 4, the timeless words of Thomas Jefferson will surely be invoked to remind us of our founding ideals - that «All men are created equal» and are «endowed by their Creator» with the right to «Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.»

If our redescriptions of the world of everyday life under the sign of the Resurrection have helped to fuel this desire for goodness and happiness in this life, if they have helped us formulate, with Kant, the notion of a human society understood as a «Kingdom of ends» (in which each human being, including oneself, is treated as an end in him or herself), we find that the effort to realize such hopes requires us to «postulate» realities which we can not «know»: freedom, immortality, God.

Years later we can find him making such an entry as this in his diary: «On Wednesday the 12th I preached at a wedding, and had the happiness thereby to be the means of excluding carnal mirth.»

GAW — I believe in deeds and our individual purpose to rescue what we know as humanity with the selfish purpose to find my happiness.

What if your father was an accountant and raised you to believe that only by being an accountant could you truly find happiness and never gave you any other options, infact threatened to disown you if you even so much as glanced at the attorney booth or medical fields at your school job fair?

An Israeli research group found that certain variations of the gene made people much more likely to affirm such statements as «I bubble with happiness» and «I am a cheerful optimist.»

All this should be of interest to the Christian thinker, for it enables him to find (as we have said) a «secular» confirmation for his belief in the God whose suffering love shares in the world's pain while at the same time his triumphant joy is in part derived from the happiness which the world can know.

Can a child find its path in life better from having that as an option, it is it a cancer (from nature) that even if endorsed wounds the soul and limits the physical ability to experience natural happiness...

What will you find when you visit Life As I See It (Fitness, Health and Happiness]?

Returning to the bike trails after all this, he says, was not nearly as important as finding happiness with his wife and child.

Eric has contributed to several websites, utilizing his insights and skills to help both men and women find happiness within themselves as well as in their relationships.

But others thought and expected they'd be married with kids by a certain age but didn't find a good partner, as Melanie Nokin details in her new book Otherhood: Modern Women Finding A New Kind of Happiness.

Not only do my sheep (and goats, chickens, turkeys, and pigs) give us so much happiness in their presence and personalities as well as amazing fibre for spinning and knitting, but their poop feeds the soil, which grows good food, and any surplus finds its way back to the animal's troughs to start all over again.

You can find great happiness as you parent your twins.