Sentences with phrase «individual happiness in»

Relationships are absolutely vital to our individual happiness in life — they determine our success in school, our careers, our friendships, and our marriages — and our ability to attach to other people in a healthy way and maintain that attachment over the long term is absolutely vital to our relationships.

It also has among the lowest crime rates, lowest rates of teen pregnancies, the best education systems, and the highest reported individual happiness in the world.

Not exact matches

It is clear to everyone on the team that he cares about his employees as individuals and is personally invested in both their career opportunities and general happiness.»

And in individual jobs, he writes, happiness has more to do with personal control than with compensation.

I believe America's answers are to be found with, by, and in the individual American honestly pursuing happiness not in 2,000 page bills.

«Because changing these circumstantial factors can be monetarily and temporally costly — if not impossible — the results of these studies provide limited assistance to individuals who wish to achieve greater happiness in their daily 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.

But when the affected individuals form a substantial bloc, and when even the doubling of an economy might not make a significant difference in the happiness of children, they might well resist.

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.

But, in addition, the ethical & spiritual development of each individual is essential for the happiness of that individual.

A Whiteheadian political theory, then, should have due regard for the biological and «material» conditions of human existence, recognizing that these yield their own measure of self - enjoyment.11 Also included in private happiness are the nonshared aspects of the individual's dialogue with himself or herself.

Why should life be considered valuable in and of itself, independently of the happiness of the individual living that life?

Granting that inequalities of potential exist in human individuals, these inequalities are too slight and too subject to change (i.e., neither extreme nor enduring) to conclude that the maximal happiness of one group is coincident with the maximal importance of the rest.

After all, one or more individuals may prefer political participation, in which case human community becomes constitutive of happiness, until those preferences change.

Within the Islamic framework the individual and the community have defined for them the rights and obligations which ensure life and happiness through cooperation and equity in assigning privileges and tasks without encroaching upon the rights of the individual or the community.

The justice or mercy will not be improved from the ethical standpoint, but the just and merciful one will rejoice and gain in total satisfaction should the individuals being dealt with increase in goodness or happiness.

It is not the individual who attains, in the Kingdom of God, to the realization of his latent capacities, to the cultivation of his personality, or to perfect happiness.

The true lights of the Church, those who are most important for the eternal salvation of mankind as well as of individuals are not the Pope, the bishops or the cardinals in their red cassocks, but those who possess and radiate most faith, hope and love, most humility and unselfishness, most fortitude in carrying the cross, most happiness and confidence.

Since our country «is a «Christian» nation» that extols the virtue of the individual's right to pursue happiness above all else, those rights Obama stands for must be Christian in origin, Obama must be a Christian.

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.»

For (and this may be the chief lesson to be learned from these biographies) George Eliot is perhaps the signal figure for those who maintain that we can be good without God, indeed, that belief in the Christian God is a great impediment to the achievement of «individual and social happiness.»

«A developmental task is a task which arises at or about a certain period of the life of an individual, successful achievement of which leads to happiness and to success with later tasks, while failure leads to unhappiness in the individual, disapproval of society, and difficulty with later tasks» (Robert J. Havighurst, quoted by Duvall, op.

From the outset, Volf makes it clear that he is on a religious and social quest that involves the whole person, individual and social, in the search for meaning and happiness.

The problem is much more radical: the modern West's rejection of objective morality, grounded in divine wisdom and intrinsic to human nature, the knowing and following of which is the only path to individual happiness and a just social order.

She believed in self and individual happiness.

When the founding fathers wrote about the pursuit of happiness in the Declaration of Independence, they had in mind the idea that governments should follow the example of God in respecting individuals to make their own decisions, and treat everyone equally and fairly under the law.

Their rule of «the greatest happiness for the greatest number» is strictly applicable, but it is spontaneously and non-calculatively calibrated to balance the claims to individual experience both qualitatively and quantitatively in the divine experience.

In our great desire to free the individual for happiness, we Americans have tried to make a social world that would serve the self.

It is only in this context of contributionism that Hartshorne speaks of the quality of human experience and individual satisfaction or happiness.

Why would we as Americans not want our government and its laws to recognize that same marriage sanctity for gay and lesbian individuals in their pursuit of liberty and happiness?

Isaiah Berlin writes of Herzen, «His purely personal credo remained unaltered from his earliest days: «Art, and the summer lightning of individual happiness, these are the only real goods we have,» he declared in a self - revealing passage of the kind that so deeply shocked the stern young Russian revolutionaries in the 1860s.»

It is also necessary to raise the spiritual content of well - being and reduce all the symptoms of anomie, like family disintegration, conflict and tensions, crime, alcoholism, drug addiction and mental illness, all indicating lack of inner happiness and contentment in the life of individuals.

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

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 others.

In such a self - sacrifice situation, promoting the general happiness does not enhance one's own individual happiness.

Mill seems, then, to require a further premise in order to make an inference from desire for individual happiness to desire for the general 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.

Given such inevitable conflicts, then, it would appear that a God motivated by utilitarian aims must will that some individuals be forced to suffer in order to promote the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

You're both sad individuals who should find real happiness in life.

You probably would to be chief of surgery in a hospital, but for Tenley now this is an individual approach to happiness and a useful life.

Wenger can not deny himself happiness because of some individual who find solace in negativity and moaning.

In the Disney vision of relationships, it's like, OK, you're married and that matters more that individual emotional health, individual happiness.

No study has shown, however, that the goals for separateness and independence (or happiness, for that matter) are obtained in the individual by, among other things, separate sleeping arrangements for parents and children, nor do any studies demonstrate negative consequences for children or parents who choose to cosleep for ideological or emotional purposes, except when cosleeping is part of a larger psychologically disordered set of family relationships or when cosleeping occurs under dangerous social or physical circumstances.

After eighteen months, the researchers found that people in the first group, those who had exercised choice and control, scored higher on tests measuring activity and happiness compared to individuals in the second group.

And the reason that it occurs, and the reason that it's there and the reason that it's an individual right, is because our founders wrote it to protect the fundamental rights that we get from God that are expressed in the Declaration of Independence and those are the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and the pursuit of happiness also means property.»

He argues that income is an insufficient measure of individual happiness and his work has resulted in the creation of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) initiative.

In a 2007 study, Sasson and his collaborators showed 30 individuals — 10 with autism, 10 with schizophrenia and 10 who are typical — a series of movie stills in which people express fear, anger, sadness, surprise or happinesIn a 2007 study, Sasson and his collaborators showed 30 individuals — 10 with autism, 10 with schizophrenia and 10 who are typical — a series of movie stills in which people express fear, anger, sadness, surprise or happinesin which people express fear, anger, sadness, surprise or happiness.

And there are a number of studies — William Rees who's at the University of British Columbia was in that session and he brought up some studies that showed that, right: Beyond a certain point of material income, happiness doesn't increase, satisfaction doesn't increase and in fact even utility, you know, to society or utility even to economic prosperity does not increase beyond a certain level of income and that's individual, corporate.

Since then, Cynthia has coached countless women from all over the world and led workshops that helped individuals find gifts in their negative experiences and turn their focus towards the loving voice that has always been ready to give them happiness in life.