Sentences with phrase «of a happy life as»

She painted «old - timey things,» as she put it — recollections of a happy life as a child, then wife, on a farm in Upstate New York and, for a time, in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.

Not exact matches

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people hHappy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happyhappy.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we really need to make us happy is something to put our mind to, put our heart and soul into, to be enthusiastic about, and to be proud of.

As science suggests, those memories are bound to make you happier than you expect, but Rubin also notes that «we tend to write down the happier things,» which also focuses the mind on the positive aspects of life, boosting joy with very little effort.

The company invests a lot of money in these pups, as they need to be healthy and happy and live just like a dog at home (to gather accurate data of a pet's natural routine).

He is not, as he admits, much of a numbers person, so he's happy to leave the financial responsibilities to his business and life partner.

You'll be happier as a result, which will carry over into every aspect of your life.

Then you have the other side of the equation: people who are happy with life as it is.

I have no doubt that if I had just kept on operating the way that I had during large periods of my adult life, I would not be as happy and satisfied, and all those good things, as I am today.

Purchases, we all know, can sometimes make us very happy, the choices afforded by financial security (or lack thereof) have a huge impact on quality of life, and trying to keep up with the Joneses is generally regarded as a recipe for misery.

If you're going to spend a quarter of your life working you might as well be happy doing it.

What I am advocating for is more freedom for employees to integrate their careers with the other pillars of their lives, such as getting to know their kids, discovering new perspectives through travel, and fueling creative thinking through passion projects — all things that lead to happier, more innovative and more committed employees.

like the kind of happy but short - lived accident that could soon seem as dated as the Atkins diet or Crocs.

Through the magic of Pixar animation we enter the «Inside Out» world of 11 - year - old Riley as she learns to navigate the changes and uncertainty that come with being uprooted from her happy and stable life in Minnesota and transplanted to a new life in San Francisco.

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With its slower pace of living, warm, welcoming climate, healthy, fresh foods and reputation as one of the «greenest and cleanest» countries in the world with little pollution, lots of clean water and fresh air... it's no wonder Costa Ricans are considered the «happiest people on the planet».

If you offer a work - from - home policy, your employees can work on their own time and deal with their work - life balance as they need to, meaning you still get your eight hours of work and your employees are happier.

He was as content and happy as any friend I have, and he deserved every bit of the joy that was part of his life.

This raise should be more than enough to compensate cost of living expenses, and more importantly, the cost of keeping them happy and as long - term employees.»

Now, Job after his bought with «pride» he ask YHWH for his forgiveness, and was later blessed with more sons and daughters who did the law, who were good children and an even better wife, and he lived for four generations of his children and their children, and died a very happy and fulfilled life, knowing that all of his family was left with love, and peace and togetherness among each other, now this is true life, living righteously and wholesome by ourselves and by others around us is what we are all suppose to live like, caring for your neighbors faithfully, and all be as one now not after it is too late but now we need the law of righteousness from YHWH, the 10 commandments, the sabbath, a day of rest, and the passover to remember the ones who died innocently, and to remember the freedom of our lives given by YHWH and do good by one another and not let each other fall, right now is what we need in this world today people.

Yet we continue in the enjoyment of our everyday lives, brainwashed and happy because we don't care if we are enslaved by taxes and bills as long as we have our pretty homes, our many possessions and our nice cars.

And some of them would send their daughters for marriage between that age to elder men just to be able to support the rest of the family with the marriage money... Maybe you being in America living fully covered from A to Z know nothing about how poorer countries live and think all are as happy as you are?!

One could have an abortion and happy they denied life to an innocent in favor of their own lifestyle, one could have a baby with the intent on sacrificing it to Satan in some way, shape, or form, it could go lots of different ways for lots of different reasons but contradicting itself is of absolutely no concern as a lot of Satanists also label themselves «nonreligious».

Or you could walk away chase after the norm as other people do and cheat yourself out of a very happy, nice and well vested life on the earth not to mention beyond.

My life was once much more difficult, and I wasn't the happy, comfortable, and respected person I am now, and I managed to get that way without religion, as millions of others have.

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!

Part of the shocking revelation that Jesus brought us is that God doesn't just want us to go to a happy, peaceful place, but that he's inviting us to enter into a familial relationship with Him and as His children we will live with Him, do things with Him and and work with Him (and consequentially each other, forming a body that is One).

While 88 percent of Catholic respondents regard religion as «very important» or «fairly important» in their lives, they aren't that happy with Church doctrine....

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

There is no shortage of scholarly evidence that gratitude leads to a less stressful and more «happy life,» as the experts call it.

I never heard Richard speak of that skull or its terse motto, but he seemed more than others to live his life with its kind of awareness» and maybe, for that reason, as a happier man, with a more exquisitely lively sense of humor.

It records a wide variety of life experiences — the happy and the difficult — from her youth and Hollywood years to her service to the world as a Benedictine contemplative.

And it is actual that if one still keeps his judgement to other as a view of differentiation on mind perception, one will not live a happy life since he has built his own confinement.

And can we learn once again to be happy in traditional towns and cities — not only as a moral antidote to individualism, inequality and the misuse of environmental resources, and not only as an aesthetic antidote to suburban sprawl, but also for the sake of the genuine goods and pleasures (including both communal belonging and individual freedom) of traditional urban life?

Regardless, it sounds like you have a happy and content life as the result of your thinking, as do I. I've only wanted to offer my own thoughts and experience on the topic, and I hope it will be of interest to others as well.

As for the ex - girlfriend / fiance, he's not the first gay who has tried to play the part of a straight in order to fit in with society, but no one is ever happy living a lie.

Chicago philosopher - comic Aaron Freeman made the same point in a recent National Public Radio commentary: «Gratitude ameliorates the worst aspect of American life, which is that the consumer culture makes us constantly aware of what we do not have, without counterbalancing rituals of gratitude for the mind - boggling bounty that is the U.S.A.... As you are grateful, to that precise extent you are happy.»

As a mechanical engineer which would include using math and physics principles to help with the design of a product with a particular function; I challenge you now; that when you can create a living person with all your intelligence and not use a woman to do it; I will be happy to listen to you... until then, I believe that God the Father and Son and Holy Spirit worked together in 6 literal days and rested on the 7th Day and Santified and Hallowed that day.

Interestingly, many left - wing fans, who would hate everything the central family stands for if their lifestyle was preserved today, are quite happy to embrace the sight of Elizabeth McGovern as the wealthy Countess of Grantham, who drifts through life, barely able to dress without the help of a servant.

Or, as my Dem family occupying most of the general Baltimore area philosophizes (behind closed doors of course), just hand out enough to keep»em happy and keep»em from rioting, and we will get on with our life and making money.

But just as her salvation gospels can not be entirely dismissed, his critique of her can not be written off merely as rooted in his personal bitterness and his misogynist jealousy of her «boundless female strength,» There is something smug in her existence on a «special plane reserved for women with a privileged emotional life and a happier, more mundane adjustment to the mysteries of life.»

It makes us sound ignorant and really we should be thinking about all of those who are lost their live in the incident or serving as troops I'm not saying that Osama's death is bad, because personally I am quite happy about this, but we didn't act the right way about his death.

Indeed, already in 1913 the missionary scholar J N Farquhar noted that «the life of India is dominated by the future, by the vision of the brilliant happy India that is to rise as a result of the united toil and self - sacrifice of her sons.»

For let a man but have so much piety as to intend to please God in all the actions of his life as the happiest and best thing in the world, and then he will never swear more.

I believe the church improves the odds of a happy family life as all the teachings are very positive, Christ and service centered.

So she provides a number of other possible rationales, such as that we all equally seek to live, to be free, and to be happy.

My 86 year old great uncle who has been with the same man happily for 40 years, a good deal of the time as mayor of a decent sized city (no, not in the backwater US) has had one of the greatest, happiest lives I know.

She envisioned her role as a continuation of her efforts on earth to be helpful, to make others happy, to be present, to strengthen them in their own life journeys.

This is a happy and inspiring story — the only sad thing is that the Riches are unable to recount that the various battles — for example to ensure that marriage is once again established as the foundation of community life, or to ensure protection for unborn babies from abortion — had been won.