Quoting classical Greek thinkers like Epicurus on the good
of pursuing happiness, Hunter also cites ornithologist, naturalist, and philosopher Alexander Skutch in his book Moral Foundations:
In the course
of pursuing his happiness, it becomes clear to him that he must murder his wife.
It's time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime
of pursuing happiness... it's time to let children be children again.
Not exact matches
«A growing body
of research suggests that negative thinking, if strategically
pursued, has a role to play in
happiness, too,» reports Oliver Burkeman in the Center's newsletter.
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.
To defy them will be to be frustrated and incomplete, to fail to achieve that good
of rational
happiness which it is peculiarly ours as a species to
pursue.»
What is comparatively new is the faith and fervor with which it is
pursued and the manner in which all else tends to be regarded as subordinate to the
happiness that comes from the satisfaction
of wants.
But when it comes to non-autonomous children, policy protects their rights to
pursue happiness by promoting the truth about marriage» encouraging a man and a woman to commit to each other permanently and exclusively so that any children that their union produces will have access to the love and care
of their mother and father.
Instead
of buying into the notion that
happiness is something we need to pursue out there, let's laugh at the cosmic joke: Happiness has been right here all along, patiently waitin
happiness is something we need to
pursue out there, let's laugh at the cosmic joke:
Happiness has been right here all along, patiently waitin
Happiness has been right here all along, patiently waiting for us.
Since political principles identify the proper relations between humans, and since these relations are not constitutive
of happiness, freedom has meant the absence
of authority or coercion, i.e., the liberty to
pursue happiness without human interference.
GOP, go count your money, the rest
of us want to
pursue life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness.
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.
He does not accept that the real greater good comes from the efforts
of individuals exercising their freedom and that government exists principally to enable them to
pursue their inalienable rights
of life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness.
The only answer I could come up with is
pursuing happiness (as measured in moments
of love and connection) in a way that is least harmful to others journey or even better helps free them from their pains.
On this reading, I have a «right» to
pursue my own conception
of happiness, and «the permanent and aggregate interests
of the community» are coequal with the protection
of this liberty right and the promotion
of economic prosperity.
Working with a concerned
happiness our minds begin to become free to
pursue ways and means
of helping people.
I want him to be free not only to
pursue his own
happiness, but to love God and his neighbors in the radical way
of that rebel from Nazareth who saved the world not as a national hero, but as a crucified enemy
of the state.
Most Thoughtful (nominated by Chip Monck): Peter Rollins with «Please Give Me Freedom From the Pursuit
of Happiness» «The type
of oppression that comes from our ability to
pursue what we want does not allow us to maintain this inner protest.
May we welcome those who yearn to breathe free and to
pursue happiness in this land
of freedom, adding their gifts to those whose families have lived here for centuries.
If we are going to live out the Gospel, we must give up our right to
pursue our own personal definition
of happiness, and instead put the needs and rights
of others first, seeking to love and serve them.
You say «If we are going to live out the Gospel, we must give up our right to
pursue our own personal definition
of happiness, and instead put the needs and rights
of others first, seeking to love and serve them.»
The difference between a government that stays out
of the way so we can
pursue our own definitions
of happiness and a government that presumes to measure and guarantee
happiness on our behalf, is the distinction between liberty and happy - face statism.
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.»
The Gospel calls us to give our right to
pursue our own
happiness, and instead put the needs and rights
of others first, seeking to love and serve them.
The Declaration
of Independence proclaims that we each have an inalienable and individual right to
pursue happiness.
Traditional attitudes toward the natural environment make Indians, like the Japanese, more disposed than Americans to
pursue happiness modestly.15 And almost six decades after his assassination, Gandhi's traditionalist emphasis on austerity and self - abnegation remains a powerful part
of Indian identity.
The reason liberal democracy may be appropriate for our civil society is that as a pluralistic society, we have little hope
of reaching complete agreement concerning the human good and the proper way to
pursue happiness.
It is not just those enamored with the prosperity gospel who have
pursued health, wealth, and
happiness as if they were divine rights and signs
of God's blessing.
I have the right to
pursue happiness, I have the freedom
of religion right too, and that means freedom from religion.
They've discovered the things that actually bring
happiness are long - term loving relationships, strong social connections, the opportunity to
pursue meaningful work, a sense
of optimism and openness to new experiences, as well as a spiritual belief or identification with an issue or idea larger than oneself.
There is no better example
of this than the one being in Scripture who desired to live life as he wanted, liberated from all divine control, free to
pursue his own
happiness as he defined it.
Effectively, doing what I'd call a Whole Family
Happiness Audit: doing an evaluation of what makes us happy in the fullest and broadest sense and asking hard questions about what we're doing to pursue that happiness, and how that action (or inaction) impacts the world a
Happiness Audit: doing an evaluation
of what makes us happy in the fullest and broadest sense and asking hard questions about what we're doing to
pursue that
happiness, and how that action (or inaction) impacts the world a
happiness, and how that action (or inaction) impacts the world around us.
The road to
happiness led Brittny to Chicago in April 2010 to
pursue her love
of musical improvisation.
Thus American liberalism advocates that the government should play some role in the economy in order to give people autonomy and enable them to
pursue their own
happiness, along the lines
of the «responsiveness» part
of the Progressive philosophy.
The only explicit mention
of a right to
pursue happiness is in the Declaration
of Independence, which does not have any bearing on the rights enjoyed by people under US law.
«The pursuit
of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you
pursue happiness, you'll never find it,» grumbled novelist C. P. Snow, and until recently, most psychologists, and perhaps most
of the public, probably would have agreed.
What must be understood is that even though I am highly educated and just as deserving
of the right to
pursue happiness as the next person, I am still looked upon through the lens
of the black, female stereotype.
She has always known she could find
happiness in a life in science, but had doubts it would come to pass; for although Dr. de Lange comes from a family
of scientists and doctors, in Amsterdam, she was not encouraged to
pursue her studies.
Because
of a little phenomenon called the hedonic treadmill, focusing our attention on amplifying what we have will always have a greater impact on net
happiness than
pursuing more money or more material objects.
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She is as the AVclub describes, «On hand to lift a gloomy male protagonist out
of the doldrums, not to
pursue her own
happiness.»
She's on hand to lift a gloomy male protagonist out
of the doldrums, not to
pursue her own
happiness.
Yet beneath all the overplayed artsiness — and not too far beneath, thankfully — there's a genuinely affecting film, about how people
pursue personal
happiness, sometimes at the expense
of their families, and sometimes as as way
of building something newer and better.
Ricky's
happiness is short - lived and a series
of unfortunate events put him on the run through the woods with Hec (Sam Neill), Bella's curmudgeonly husband,
pursued by child services, the police and an assortment
of locals.
While many men find themselves succumbing to the allure
of the younger, hotter woman and leaving their wife and kids behind, the storyline in this film shows that men who
pursue such directions often give up their best companion, the well - being
of their children, then, after the sexual enticement
of their new lover has begun to fade and reality sets in, they've given up their
happiness and ability to communicate.