For the energetic and good - humored Sonntag, attacking the dullness of everyday routine — and just plain having fun — is one key to
happiness in life as well as science.
It also supports you with the guidance and tools to handle the inevitable challenges in the best possible way so that you live well and generate as much
happiness in your life as you can.
Not exact matches
A study published
in the journal Applied Research
in Quality of
Life showed that the highest spike
in happiness came during the planning stage of a vacation
as people enjoy the sense of anticipation:
We usually view difficulties
as something to be minimized
in order to attain
happiness and satisfaction, but Leslie rounds up examples from a wide spectrum of fields to show that difficulties actually bring meaning and satisfaction into our
lives.
Benefits of giving back include feelings of
happiness and wellbeing,
as well
as inspiring a greater sense of purpose
in life.
In her book, The
Happiness Track, Emma says, «
Happiness — defined
as a state of heightened positive emotion — has a profound positive effect on our professional and personal
lives.
«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's
happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's
life, such
as the cultural environment
in which one is raised or resides and demographics such
as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.
As a long time lurker and admirer of Sam and this site, this is a very inspiring article and reminds me of what has provided me with the greatest
happiness in my
life — helping others achieve their dreams.
This competition between the personal and the professional is often labeled, generally,
as «work -
life balance,» but it's clear from these survey results that flexible jobs have the ability to make specific impacts
in areas like self - care, relationships, physical and mental health, and overall
happiness.
@Prophet The reason why people mock those who Beleieve
in God is because they are jealous
as they have no
happiness in their
lives, and examples of this are given throughtout The Bible Writings.
The reason why people mock those who Beleieve
in God is because they are jealous
as they have no
happiness in their
lives, and examples of this are given throughtout The Bible Writings.
And to
live in society and even just have friends one must prove he or she is a «moral» person, this morality is just a morality that lacks gods, such
as a belief that what is good is what brings about the most
happiness or freedom or whatever your ethical system supports.
I have a beautiful
life as well, but my
happiness is grounded
in reality, not fantasy.
none of these prayers are dangerous, for example if you pray to become like jesus, and god downgrades your
life and you lose your house and car etc, this is good,
as God is happier with those who don't value the material things
in this temporary world, and your only going to achieve heaven with Gods
happiness
But to his
life one thing was unknown, a thing which
in all relations of
life,
as in the passion of love, makes for
happiness: to be able to give and to receive «like for like.»
If I was
living on the wrong path leading to death with all the dumb things I was doing like listening to bad music, goofing around
in class, cussing, acting like I was a gangster, wanting to try drugs, being suicidal and being around with close friends that are doing the bad then he can change you too because, I tell you that if you think that your
life will go for the worst if you accept them then you're wrong because, if you have faith
in him and you accept him
as your savior and follow his ways then he has your road all planned out, he's going to give you such blessings and a
happiness and love that compares to none others.
Just
as each one of us wants
happiness and fears pain, just
as each one of us wants to
live and not to die, so do all other creatures (quoted
in Chapple, 226).
That «sheol» or sprit world afterlife was
in fact an Old Testament and even Torah - based belief and within that spiritual realm of sheol those spirits (all the spirits who were once
living) were
in either a state of
happiness or
in a state of limited ability to obtain
happiness, or
in other words a state of damnation or being
in like a spiritual prison, which would later be further described
in the New Testament (which the earliest figured written versions of the New Testament were written
in Greek for newly gentile converts)
as hell.
Though
as God incarnate, He had every right to
life, liberty, and the pursuit of His own personal
happiness, though He had the ultimate freedom to make His own religion, to say whatever He wanted to whomever, to call crowds of disciples to follow after Him, and to take up all the power and force of the universe
in His defense, Jesus instead chose to give it all away.
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.
Of the Bible she wrote, «I regard these writings
as histories consisting of mingled truth and fiction, and while I admire and cherish much of what I believe to have been the moral teaching of Jesus himself, I consider the system of doctrines built upon the facts of his
life... to be most dishonorable to God and most pernicious
in its influence on individual and social
happiness.»
In response, the proponents of «happiness» as the goal of life could point out that this term can be understood in much richer way
In response, the proponents of «
happiness»
as the goal of
life could point out that this term can be understood
in much richer way
in much richer ways.
Begin to drop a providentially active God from this picture, and we get a vision of
life that makes human
happiness central and sees us
as beings whose dignity lies chiefly
in enacting that benevolence
in ordinary
life.
In a way, it's good not to grow up (as much as is possible in this world)... and then again, in so many ways, we need to grow up and take on life with all it's joy, happiness, responsibilities, suffering and pai
In a way, it's good not to grow up (
as much
as is possible
in this world)... and then again, in so many ways, we need to grow up and take on life with all it's joy, happiness, responsibilities, suffering and pai
in this world)... and then again,
in so many ways, we need to grow up and take on life with all it's joy, happiness, responsibilities, suffering and pai
in so many ways, we need to grow up and take on
life with all it's joy,
happiness, responsibilities, suffering and pain.
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?
The ultimate object of man wherein lies his greatest
happiness in future
life is to gain knowledge of the realities of things so far
as his nature allows, and do what is incumbent upon him.
As societies modernize, doctrine is expected to focus more on
happiness in this
life than on other - worldly compensations.
In the last paragraph of the Third Meditation, one notices a direct reference to Catholic instruction: «For, as the faith teaches us, the supreme happiness of the other life consists in that single contemplation of the Divine Majesty, of which we already experience, albeit in a much less perfect contemplation, but that causes us nonetheless to rejoice of the greatest contentment of which we are capable of sensing in this life» (42
In the last paragraph of the Third Meditation, one notices a direct reference to Catholic instruction: «For,
as the faith teaches us, the supreme
happiness of the other
life consists
in that single contemplation of the Divine Majesty, of which we already experience, albeit in a much less perfect contemplation, but that causes us nonetheless to rejoice of the greatest contentment of which we are capable of sensing in this life» (42
in that single contemplation of the Divine Majesty, of which we already experience, albeit
in a much less perfect contemplation, but that causes us nonetheless to rejoice of the greatest contentment of which we are capable of sensing in this life» (42
in a much less perfect contemplation, but that causes us nonetheless to rejoice of the greatest contentment of which we are capable of sensing
in this life» (42
in this
life» (42).
This occurs when we think of heaven
as the place of salvation and when we ask what must we do to «get
in,» or when we think of heaven or salvation
as requiring a way of
life on earth that really limits our
happiness or natural desires or human goals.
We both went on with our
lives and I've tried to contact him a few years ago, but he ignored my messages of asking forgiveness and a second chance to make things right - which I understand
as he is a proud man and I wish him all the
happiness and blessings
in the world.
The readings offer four distinct perspectives on the nature and attainment of
happiness, each of which will serve
as the springboard for the discussion of a different set of issues
in relation to the search for human ful llment: participation
in public
life, self - control and education, the longing for God, and the confrontation of death.
It follows, for both James and Henry
as it does for their sister
in her best work, that our behavior with people close by is the true field of «morality,» and that
happiness and well - being
in life depend on the need for self - observation or clear insight into the self.
This is purported to be an improvement over the ancient Greek idea that to be ethical is to value
as the only source of secure
happiness that which can not be taken away from one, such
as, for example, a simple, ordered, tranquil
life, passed mainly
in contemplation and the enjoyment of secure friendship — a
life relatively immune to disaster.
But,
as a parent, it conflicts with my idea and experience of parenthood, which has everything to say
in favor of the future
lives of those children and their
happiness, and nothing whatever to do with perpetuating me.
The second is like to this: the sheer
happiness of seeing
in the
lives and personalities of good men and women, especially the younger ones, a deepening beauty, closeness to God, willing and prayerful service, and not infrequently the giving of their own whole
lives as a total vocation to God
in the closer, apostolic service of religion.
Dailey continued to describe how he gave people joy: «One of my colleagues who did speak to him said that he was clearly the same fun loving man
in real
life as came across on the stage and that kind of joy and
happiness is something all Christians should seek to give the world.»
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.
The best political activity can do is to enforce a rule of law that allows men to
live peacefully with one another
as they pursue «the activities
in which they have chosen to seek their
happiness.»
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.
The remarkable
happiness Jesus brought to his friends and followers is due
in large measure to their experience of the abolition of shame
as they
lived in his forgiving presence.
God is on our side
in life's tragedy,
in that he shares it with us, along with all our longing for
happiness, so that this longing counts for all it is worth
in the divine
life, is just
as real there
as in us.
«Therefore we can see the meaning of the Word taking upon Himself our mortal flesh and being created
as a «beginning» of God's works... Before we were created, we had been elected
in the predestined Incarnation of the Son, to spiritual and everlasting
life and
happiness.
Rather, I have begun more and more to experience for myself the «joy of the Gospel» that Pope Francis calls us all to proclaim, and which shone out
in the
lives of the priests who inspired me
as a young man: an extraordinary sense of peace,
happiness and purpose which comes from encountering Jesus and handing your
life over to him.»
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.
This is precisely why items such
as»
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness» are mainstays when it comes to interpreting the Const - itution despite them not actually being included
in the Consti - tution.
That the narrowness of the «lower experience» has been often considered the meaning of
happiness by common sense while security and order
in life are extolled
as virtue is itself a tragic testimony to the folly of human timidity,
as analyzed below.
The Mass
as a sacrifice can go; the Eucharist can be seen
in its «evolutionary role»
as «fostering our future
life and
happiness together
in union with the risen Christ» (pp131 - 139); the Incarnation and Christology can be reconfigured since Christ did not come to redeem or restore human beings.
There is no better example of this than the one being
in Scripture who desired to
live life as he wanted, liberated from all divine control, free to pursue his own
happiness as he defined it.