If you're feeling frustration
more than happiness in your days as a stay - at - home mom, maybe it's time to explore your options.
When babies grunt under such circumstances, their sounds should not be taken seriously since it means nothing
more than the happiness the child displays.
price is not
more than your happiness.
He wants nothing
more than my happiness, the same I want for him.
Not exact matches
«This study is a warning that we are beginning to value virtual pleasure hits
more than authentic
happiness.»
These links between
happiness and time use are worrying news, as the current generation of teens (whom I call «iGen» in my book of the same name) spends
more time with screens
than any previous generation.
But as bestselling author and Oprah - anointed
happiness expert Shawn Achor pointed out on in an excerpt from his new book on the TED Ideas blog recently, that sort of praise — well intentioned as it might be — actually does
more harm
than good.
She has
more than 25 years of experience in corporate and startup ventures, and speaks widely on combining strategic and creative thinking for optimum success and
happiness.
And negativity, unfortunately, is much
more catching
than happiness.
People, health and
happiness are far
more important
than your business.
Unwrapping presents on a holiday or birthday is undeniably fun, but science suggests the person who bought and wrapped those gifts is gaining
more happiness than you are.
Despite the fact people chose freely and presumably wanted to maximize their
happiness, those who opted to think of a negative memory for
more chocolate were significantly less happy
than those who chose a positive memory for less chocolate.
Meanwhile, the body of literature analyzing and measuring
happiness is growing and increasingly popular: from 1991 to 1995, Buchholtz writes, there were just four economics papers published on the topic; between 2001 and 2005,
more than 100 appeared.
And in individual jobs, he writes,
happiness has
more to do with personal control
than with compensation.
One study conducted at UC Riverside found that Anglo - Americans benefitted
more from
happiness - increasing activities; however, researchers did see a small trend that Asians gained
more from activities directed toward benefitting others»
happiness, like writing a letter of gratitude,
than activities strictly intended to benefit the self.
After performing the same
happiness - inducing activities, the people who signed up for the
happiness study — the group Lyubomirsky saw as
more «motivated» to become happier — gained
more from the study
than those who signed up for the other exercise.
It's our social relationships that are the number one predictor of
happiness —
more than demographics, age or income.
The takeaway: «Small, concrete goals designed to improve the well being of others are
more likely to lead to
happiness for the giver
than are acts with large, abstract goals — despite people's intuitions to the contrary,» and keeping that fact in mind can provide a considerable boost to your well being.
Your habits create
happiness more than anything else in life.
One of those who find in the discipline
more ideology
than science, Orrell argues against 10 principles of economic orthodoxy, including the rationality and predictability of the market and its potential to provide
happiness.
And that might increase feelings of guilt for being paid so much
more than you've earned or deserve, thus diminishing
happiness.
And with a growing body of research that suggests employee
happiness yields a promising return on investment, many employers are interested in perking up their workers with
more than just K - Cup coffee.
A Strayer survey recently found that 90 percent of Americans define success as
more about
happiness than power, possessions, or prestige.
Research shows that
happiness has positive effects on our brains, and it's certainly a pleasant turn of luck to be born with a sunny disposition, but according to science if you weren't so fortunate and naturally tend towards pessimism, trying to remake yourself into
more of an optimist is probably doing
more harm
than good.
Research does show that money is associated with greater
happiness up to an income of about $ 75,000, but even after controlling for income, it turns out that people who want time
more than they want money are happier.
Those in the
happiness control group were up to 12 percent
more efficient in completing the tasks
than their sad, stressed counterparts.
If you want
more happiness and joy in your life
than smiling is definitely a good start, since other things mentioned above require not just change in your behavior but also your mindset.
[09:10] The science of achievement [09:25] Effective execution [09:45] The element of grace [10:00] The art of fulfillment [10:45] The key to
happiness is progress [10:55] When you grow you have something to give [11:30] What's
more rare
than a billionaire [11:45] Taking 100 % responsibility for yourself [12:10] Add
more value [12:55] Dreams + Embracing reality + Determination [13:15] The quality of life is the quality of your decisions [13:55] The meeting of a lifetime or a critical business obligation [16:15] Decision - making must be done on paper [16:25] What makes decision - making hard?
With continued exercise, practicing gratitude will create
more abundance, prosperity, well - being, and
happiness than you ever thought possible.
It was originally titled «Why money can't buy you
happiness `, but I've just realised that it would be
more appropriately titled if I used a «won't» rather
than a «can't».
Some did try to reconnect with estranged family or patch troubled relationships when they learned they were dying -
more for themselves
than for the
happiness of their families.
The good people at Heritage have
more than a few misgivings about this undertaking, and not just about our ability to assess
happiness....
If our American culture is
more Hobbesian
than Hobbes in its incapacity to supply a summum bonum, unable even to choose between
happiness and individuality, de Sade's challenge becomes a
more serious question
than normal opinion dares take seriously.
The difficulty with arguing that gambling interests produce
more social havoc
than benefits is that it is an argument about
happiness.
Reasoning with people of faith is
more tricky
than the
happiness one finds by abandoning their own faith in religious delusion.
They had one supreme theory: that the perfect beauty and
happiness of cities and of human life was to be brought about by
more factories; they had a mania for factories; there was nothing they would not do to cajole a factory away from another city; and they were never
more piteously embittered
than when another city cajoled one away from them.
I guess that C.S. Lewis — here at least — spoke of pleasure rather
than of Christian
happiness which, of course, can not be found in any outwardly oriented religion if we are not indwelt by the Holy Spirit who gives us love, joy, peace, and much
more (Gal 5:22 - 23).
It is meaningful to say that one thing is higher or better
than, or superior to (or has
more of some variable property not a mere deficiency
than), another; but this meaning is not simply univocal, since x may be better
than y in one respect, say in ethical goodness, and not better in another, say in
happiness.
It provides an opportunity to work, and work
more than money fosters human
happiness and growth.
Teams from the London School of Economics and Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that involvement in organized religion was
more effective at producing «sustained
happiness»
than sports, political groups, charity work or continuing educational efforts.
Is there ANYTHING that brings Christians
more happiness than imagining the torture of non-believers while they get to say «I told you so!»?
Just as we saw that in healthy - mindedness there are shallower and profounder levels,
happiness like that of the mere animal, and
more regenerate of
happiness, so also are there different levels of the morbid mind, and the one is much
more formidable
than the other.
The securest way to the rapturous sorts of
happiness of which the twice - born make report has as an historic matter of fact been through a
more radical pessimism
than anything that we have yet considered.
Instead of lamenting the fact that Americans seemed to be
more intent on individual
happiness than upon public good, some began to argue that just such a principle was the basis of the new American system The new Constitution, it was felt, harnessed individual acquisitiveness to public order.
As societies modernize, doctrine is expected to focus
more on
happiness in this life
than on other - worldly compensations.
I was encouraged that Gawande believes — like my mother — that
happiness sometimes matters
more than safety, and forcing bitterly unwanted interventions on a resisting person can be the wrong approach.
We will not make this kind of move until we really decide that
happiness is
more important
than the quantity or quality of the goods consumed, and that the latter is not, beyond a certain point, a significant contributor to
happiness.
They know the alternative amounts to little
more than hollow sentimentalities, sugar - coated falsehoods: sweet to taste, deadly to human
happiness, fatal for the common good.
No one has contributed
more to this discussion
than your neighbor in Alberta, Mark Anielski, in his recent book on the economics of
happiness.
(Ex-Catholic, now atheist) Julia Sweeney's monologue «Letting Go Of God» will be the final nail in the coffin of religious belief / faith and is and will continue to be
more effective
than any money - generating book or blog on the historical Jesus, your «Ultimate
Happiness Prescription», atheism or secularism.