Sentences with phrase «such happiness in»

There is such happiness in these small victories for me.

The only thing worse than a white knight is a white knight who then denies it and plays it off like he wasn't trying to be superior than us common folk who take such happiness in other people's demise.

Not exact matches

Director of ethical hacking, team building genius, data visualization expert, cognitive computing architect, organizational catalyst, digital prophet, chief happiness manager: who would even have been able to come up with such job titles in the early 2000s?

Recall times of happiness in your home, such as a birthday party, a get - together with friends, a special holiday or something encouraging a loved one expressed.

They chose to program their minds in such a way that they are able to achieve a higher degree of success and happiness.

«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.

While such efforts might boost workplace happiness in the short term, they fail to have any lasting effect on talent retention or performance.

United Health Programs employees were being forced to follow a «Harnessing Happiness» system that required them to engage in activities such as prayers, religious workshops and «spiritual cleansing rituals,» according to a lawsuit filed by the EEOC.

She edits and colors such comic book projects as The Lalas, and has provided design, layout, and illustrations for nearly all of Starlight Runner's famous Franchise Mythology documents, including Coca - Cola Happiness Factory, Men in Black Universe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe, Transformers Universe, and several volumes of Spider - Man Mythology documents.

Penelhum 1971 contends that the putative divine plan is itself immoral, condemning as it does honest non-believers to loss of eternal happiness, when such unbelief is in no way culpable; and that to adopt the relevant belief is to be complicit to this immoral plan.

Almost everyone draws happiness from feeling superior in one of these ways, and sadly, it is almost impossible for a person to have a rich happiness without such a feeling.

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.

Far from condoning every destruction of nature that is executed in the name of human purposes, the maximal happiness principle prescribes such sacrifice only when the human possibilities are thereby greater than they would otherwise be.

Laws such as there certain things that can keep us from obtaining our full potential and happiness in which God wants to grant to us.

On its way to a view of happiness, the last section outlined a perspective in which reality as such can not be fully understood independently of its importance.

With respect to the teleology of the universe, humans are in principle equals, and the proper principle for ethical deliberation is maximal happiness as such.10

In any case, I wish to make clear that both terms are used here in a broader sense, such that the liberal view of interest (or self - interest, or happiness) is simply one of the alternatives.2 In speaking of a private view of self - interest, I mean that human community is thought to be solely instrumental to, i.e., not constitutive of, happinesIn any case, I wish to make clear that both terms are used here in a broader sense, such that the liberal view of interest (or self - interest, or happiness) is simply one of the alternatives.2 In speaking of a private view of self - interest, I mean that human community is thought to be solely instrumental to, i.e., not constitutive of, happinesin a broader sense, such that the liberal view of interest (or self - interest, or happiness) is simply one of the alternatives.2 In speaking of a private view of self - interest, I mean that human community is thought to be solely instrumental to, i.e., not constitutive of, happinesIn speaking of a private view of self - interest, I mean that human community is thought to be solely instrumental to, i.e., not constitutive of, happiness.

Reinforcing in advance the claim I have put forth at the end of Part Two, Hartshorne went on to point out: «Just as the Stoics said the ideal was to have good will toward all but not in such fashion as to depend in any [221] degree for happiness upon their fortunes or misfortunes, so Christian theologians, who scarcely accepted this idea in their ethics, nevertheless adhered to it in characterizing God.»

That is, if we wish to destroy, it is in order to defend our safety or our happiness or what appears to us as such.

Just as the Stoics said the ideal was to have good will toward all but not in such fashion as to depend in any degree for happiness upon their fortunes or misfortunes, so Christian theologians, who scarcely accepted this idea in their ethics, nevertheless adhered to it in characterizing God.8

the concrete prescriptions which it is only necessary to follow in order to bring about a condition of universal peace and happiness in the world, as far as such a thing is possible at all.

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.

Although Hartshorne has not articulated the inconsistencies of the idea of divine relativity as openly as we did earlier, it seems that he is willing to take recourse in something like a spectator God who remains in «mere happiness» (not fearing) just as much as Plato denied existence to forms of negative elements of the world such as mud.

Man's good consists in the knowledge of truth; yet man's sovereign good consists, not in the knowledge of any truth, but in the perfect knowledge of the sovereign truth... Hence there may be sin in the knowledge of certain truths, in so far as the desire of such knowledge is not directed in due manner to the knowledge of the sovereign truth, wherein supreme happiness consists.

The happiness that comes, when any does come — and often enough it fails to return in an acute form, though its form is sometimes very acute — is not the simple ignorance of ill, but something vastly more complex, including natural evil as one of its elements, but finding natural evil no such stumbling - block and terror because it now sees it swallowed up in supernatural good.

Thus, external circumstances rather than mental health could be the decisive factor in determining such a person's happiness.)

Such happiness may not be the only recommendation necessary to establish a man's character, but, other things being equal, it should count heavily in his favor.

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?

But when the contemporary fashion is for an abundance of relativist «truths» and what appears to be in the ascendancy is how one «feels» and even governments aim to have a «happiness agenda,» desperate to fill a gap at the heart of civic society, then being old - fashioned may not be such a terrible accusation.

Such is the second rational approximation of hope: it resides in this Zusammenhang, in this connection that is necessary yet not given, but simply demanded, expected, between morality and happiness.

This is purported to be an improvement over the ancient Greek idea that to be ethical is to value as the only source of secure happiness that which can not be taken away from one, such as, for example, a simple, ordered, tranquil life, passed mainly in contemplation and the enjoyment of secure friendship — a life relatively immune to disaster.

Happiness and unhappiness in this life, and death and the everlasting life, have been explained in such a way that there is no other explanation that is equal to it.

I am not certain that this idea is exactly found in Scripture, but regardless of what the original founders thought about the pursuit of happiness, and whether or not it is actually taught in Scripture, the pursuit today is not so much happiness, but pleasure or personal fulfillment, even when such things come at the expense of others.

The Scripture does talk about happiness, but it is a happiness derived from obeying God and serving others, even when such things result in personal pain, suffering, and even death.

Yet there is much in similar there as well... such as the folly of thinking that having possessions will bring you happiness.

If our redescriptions of the world of everyday life under the sign of the Resurrection have helped to fuel this desire for goodness and happiness in this life, if they have helped us formulate, with Kant, the notion of a human society understood as a «Kingdom of ends» (in which each human being, including oneself, is treated as an end in him or herself), we find that the effort to realize such hopes requires us to «postulate» realities which we can not «know»: freedom, immortality, God.

But if science officially limits itself to behavior, this does not mean that unofficially we cease to acknowledge, in ourselves at least, such qualities as pleasure, pain, sweetness, sourness, fragrance, happiness, joy, sorrow, love, and hate.

Years later we can find him making such an entry as this in his diary: «On Wednesday the 12th I preached at a wedding, and had the happiness thereby to be the means of excluding carnal mirth.»

This is precisely why items such as» Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness» are mainstays when it comes to interpreting the Const - itution despite them not actually being included in the Consti - tution.

In such a self - sacrifice situation, promoting the general happiness does not enhance one's own individual happiness.

While life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are valuable human ideals in themselves, they are by no means «God - given rights,» are not guaranteed in Scripture, and when such values are divorced from the understanding that we will answer to God, these rights become some of the greatest instruments of death, enslavement, and sadness the world has ever seen.

If pleasure or happiness is understood in this very broad fashion, however, hedonism loses what many view as one of its major attractions.4 That is, recognition of pleasure as a single dominant end makes possible the use of a determinate rational procedure for moral deliberation, such as Bentham's felicific calculus (PML 37 - 43) or Rawls's counting principles (TJ 411 - 15).

Given such inevitable conflicts, then, it would appear that a God motivated by utilitarian aims must will that some individuals be forced to suffer in order to promote the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

We hold these truths to be self - evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

He seeks to conduct his life in such a way that he obtains happiness.

We need not go so far as to say with the author whom I lately quoted that any persistent enthusiasm is, as such, religion, nor need we call mere laughter a religious exercise; but we must admit that any persistent enjoyment may produce the sort of religion which consists in a grateful admiration of the gift of so happy an existence; and we must also acknowledge that the more complex ways of experiencing religion are new manners of producing happiness, wonderful inner paths to a supernatural kind of happiness, when the first gift of natural existence is unhappy, as it so often proves itself to be.

Then actually seeing the crumbles in the Selfridges Food Hall, and on the shelves of some of my other shops such as Daylesford and Planet Organic filled me with so much happiness.

Thank you both for doing what you do and for bringing such joy and happiness to so many of us in the recipes you share and the photography to absolutely die for.

We're delighted that similarly tenacious and innovative entrepreneurs in China have found such a good use for the papers, and hope those who give and receive these gifts find a lifetime of happiness together.»

In a season that is meant for joy and happiness, it was a blessing to have some of the financial stress lifted for such a basic need so that we could focus on other things like holiday parades and snowball fights, hot chocolate and decorating a Christmas tree.