I am a honest, caring, loving man looking to share
a life of happiness with that special lady.
Not exact matches
Through a measurement
of happiness and well - being called the «Cantril ladder,» Gallup asked nationally representative populations to value their
lives on a scale from 0 to 10,
with the worst possible
life valued at 0 and the best valued at 10.
Gretchen Rubin, the author
of three bestsellers on
happiness, recently teamed up
with Scribd to come out
with a list
of the books that added the most
happiness to Rubin's
life.
True
happiness comes from your inner landscape — things like loving yourself, providing for your family, having happy moments
with friends and feeling proud
of how you are making a
living.
Start being grateful: feeling grateful is one
of the most medicinal emotions we can feel it elevates your mood and it fills you
with happiness, if we are going to be successful at this thing called,
life, we have to start being grateful for the things that happen in our
live, no matter how good or bad each
of us has it, you have to make to start making it a practice to be grateful for your
life.
Like Sachs, Whippman believes that «there are many reasons why
life in America is likely to produce anxiety compared
with other developed nations: long working hours without paid vacation time for many, insecure employment conditions
with little legal protection for workers, inequality, and the lack
of universal health care coverage, to name a few,» but she stresses that our «
happiness - seeking culture» is also part
of the problem.
That location would be one
of the top three factors influencing our
happiness should not be surprising - after all, place in many ways affects many other areas
of our
lives: what jobs are available, what people we'll form or keep relationships
with, how stressed or relaxed we are, our health, what hobbies we can pursue and so on.
Furthermore, 58 percent
of Millennials overall said that they enjoy «peace
of mind,» 60 percent report
happiness with their
lives now, and 47 percent said they «have enough fun.»
[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 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.
They are full
of hope for you — for «your promise,» for a
life filled
with happiness and health, and for the fact that your arrival gave them a slightly more personal way to announce their new Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Reasons employees cite for their
happiness with Vitamin T include the company's accommodating structure and work -
life balance initiatives and its support
of «boundless imagination, innovation, and those who see the world through a different lens.»
And whereas some psychologists find that high scores on certain cognitive tests correlate in older people
with the ability to keep their spirits up, other researchers hypothesize that
happiness in later
life is an effect
of cognitive losses — which force older people to concentrate on simpler, happier thoughts.
«
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit
of Happiness» is a phrase that just about every American is familiar
with.
Recognize, all
of you that there are paths to
happiness in this
life and true enlightenment that have absolutely nothing to do
with what either you «Christians» or you «atheists» believe, prosetelyze or argue about.
We
live in a world that constantly bombards us
with messages telling us we deserve things — a new house, an amazing job, a marriage
with the love
of our
life,
happiness.
Jimbo, Our way
of life brings us
happiness and success and we want to share this
happiness with you.
I have evidence in my levels
of serenity,
happiness and improved relationships
with other people that this is a positive thing for me in my
life.
The conservative movement exists to uphold the truths
of the Declaration
of Independence: «We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness.»
A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one
of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter
life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal
happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless
lives, yet cursed his other children
with biting miseries and maladies
of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead
of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally,
with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!
«We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal...
with certain unalienable Rights...
Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness.»
We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator
with inalienable rights; that among these are
life, liberty, & the pursuit
of happiness;
It is written by men that every person is endowed by his or her creator
with certain inalienable rights, and that among these is the right to
life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness.
They are endowed
with certain unalienable rights:
Life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness.»
Thus the «incarnational» counter to contemporary Gnosticism and its ideology
of «you are what you say you are» (irrespective, for example,
of biology) will be less an argument than a demonstration:
living in concord
with the moral truths built into the world and into us, which lead to beatitude or
happiness.
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
The joy
of the gospel
of marriage springs from charity: 2 the same charity that compels bishops3 to faithfully proclaim the good news
of marriage revealed in Christ; the same charity that is inseparable from the Truth, who frees the human person and reveals to him what it means to be human.4 Only in Jesus does every human being discover what it means to be truly human, to be made for God and to
live in relationship
with God, to have true
happiness.
When in the course
of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them
with another, and to assume among the powers
of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws
of Nature and
of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions
of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation — We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator
with certain unalienable rights, that among these are
life, liberty and the pursuit
of 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.
= > «endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness.
«We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights, that among these are
life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness.»
We are made for truth, thought Newman, and if our desires are well - formed and properly directed, we'll end up wishing for the
happiness of knowing and
living in accord
with the truth.
The problem is that many have forgotten:,,, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness.
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.
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.»
I don't believe your loving me could shut up your heart; it's only adding to what you've been before, not taking away from it; for it seems to me it's the same
with love and
happiness as
with sorrow — the more we know
of it the better we can feel what other people's
lives are or might be, and so we shall only be more tender to»em, and wishful to help»em.
For those who love this great country, understand this, the Declaration
of Independence proclaims that «We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness».
It's
life in an environment we used our knowledge and freedom to domesticate — or make less alien or unfriendly —
with each
of our
lives, liberty, and even
happiness in mind.
attempts to re-write history need to proceed in small pieces We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness.
Yet much can be done in the way
of making clear the understanding
of man's spiritual nature, his high destiny which points beyond this
life for its fulfillment, the meaning
of the Kingdom for this
life and the next, the Christian concepts
of judgment and salvation
with eternity in their span — in short, the goodness and power
of a God who, having given us this
life, can give us another in which to attain to his nearer presence, enjoy a richer
happiness, and do his will more perfectly.
«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.
«Whether or not there is a God,» says Ward, «I think we can see how the universe could have a goal and roughly what it would be - the existence
of intelligent
life with understanding, wisdom and
happiness, free
of suffering, disease and death.»
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.
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.
The source
of her
happiness, she wrote to her family, was «the opportunity to imitate Jesus and
live in union
with Him».
But one day I finally reached the precipice
of my
life thus far and found myself in the understanding that I was me
with or without God... and I was good... and the I loved people... and that
happiness and joy are not contingent on God.
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.
America needs a moral philosophy which is consistent
with the individual's pursuit
of his own
life,
happiness, and well - being.
Sure,
life after death and eternal
happiness with God in heaven is part
of the gospel message, but it is not the only part — or even the main part.
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.»