But I recognize that it would be a short -
lived happiness as a used Civic, meaning one with a few bumps and bruises, will also transport me around town at a more affordable cost.
And since avoiding academic risks means avoiding learning, praising students» intelligence eventually impaired their success in school (and
life happiness as well, since they felt intelligence was out of their own control).
Not exact matches
Curiosity is good for us too:
Happiness guru Martin Seligman identifies it
as a key character strength that can enhance
life satisfaction.»
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:
I'd long treated my online
life as a supplement to my real
life, an add - on... But then I began to realize,
as my health and
happiness deteriorated, that this was not a both - and kind of situation.
When my clients started adding joy breaks into their daily routines their income increased and relationships improved
as they cultivated a
life of
happiness.
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.
Should you abandon
happiness as a
life goal?
«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.
[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.
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.
As Forbes contributor and leadership coach Kristi Hedges writes, «
Happiness and work -
life balance aren't the same thing.
Here, our rather noble willingness to endure unhappiness (
as an integral part even of a moral
life dedicated to freeing us up most to the pursuit of
happiness!)
For those who don't see it
as a free gift look at it this way: - You work hard and you get paid — it's not always easy but the reward is financial security You
live with and for God and you get eternal
happiness —
life isn't easy but the reward is breathtaking.
Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object... Their hatred is directed against human beings
as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings
happiness to human
life.
There's still a lot of love and
happiness as we celebrate
life and all that it has to offer, to learn and to grow.
@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.
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!
But if it is true for a person, such
as I, without a womb, then it is equallly true of women, that they, too, have inalienable rights to
life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
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.
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.
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.
please do so
as it gives you whatever comfort
as life is the pursuit of
happiness.
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.
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.
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.»
Liberals believe all men are created equal and have the right to
life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness as evidenced by the 13 colonies of liberal (for their time) folks on the North American continent.
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.
In response, the proponents of «
happiness»
as the goal of
life could point out that this term can be understood 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 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.
The use of Limbo (from the Latin «limbus», for hem of edge) refers to a state of natural
happiness outside heaven for babies and certain virtuous people, such
as the faithful Jews who
lived before Christ.
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).
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.