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.
If a greater public world inherited means greater
happiness, so does a greater public world
pursued.
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.»
But among Christians, there ought to be good reason to hope we can agree on the main points,
if not in every detail, about what constitutes the good and how we should
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.
«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.
Naturopathic Physician licensed in AZ My favorite quote: «
Happiness is a butterfly which when
pursued is beyond the grasp but which
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It appears entirely appropriate to question what
happiness actually is
if one is going to
pursue it.
«
Happiness is a butterfly, which when
pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which,
if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.»
If the enterprises we choose to
pursue — which achieving them, Dubos states, brings us
happiness — are at the expense of the natural environments that provide our communities and families and children with the biological Joie de Vivre, then we're not human.