Sentences with phrase «than the happiness of»

Sometimes, nothing made you feel older and more worn out than the happiness of others.

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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.

If so, you may be the type of person happiness expert Gretchen Rubin calls an Eeyore — someone who'd rather eat their iphone than give themselves a contentment score in the 90s.

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.

According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

The American Meteorological Society published research in 2011 that found current temperature has a bigger effect on our happiness than variables like wind speed and humidity, or even the average temperature over the course of a day.

As much as I respect a lot of the happiness work out there, most of it is either anchored in psychology practice or spirituality, or matters that are a little softer than what today's typical person who prioritizes logic needs to understand.

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.

Gretchen Rubin, the bestselling author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, offers advice about how to be happy in her popular podcast which she co-hosts with her younger sister, Elizabeth Craft.

Tech - savvy speaker Killingsworth shares an important aspect of happiness many audience members might miss: Leaving the present often leaves us feeling emptier than we should.

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.

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.

It's our social relationships that are the number one predictor of happiness — more than demographics, age or income.

But for most of us, we work harder and longer hours than ever before, believing that by doing so, we'll find the happiness and success we want in our lives.

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.

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.

A study by Strayer University found that 90 % of Americans believe happiness is a bigger indicator of success 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.

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My experience so far is that each household has its own level of spending for maximum happiness, and that it's rather smaller on average than this.

I recent read «The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck» by Mark Manson, and I like that he frames happiness as a process — something that is with us as we solve problems — rather than a goal to be attained.

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.

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.

Reasoning with people of faith is more tricky than the happiness one finds by abandoning their own faith in religious delusion.

Thus, because the ultimate objective, the totality to which my nature is attuned has been made manifest to me, the powers of my being begin spontaneously to vibrate in accord with a single note of incredible richness wherein I can distinguish the most discordant tendencies effortlessly resolved: the excitement of action and the delight of passivity: the joy of possessing and the thrill of reaching out beyond what one possesses; the pride in growing and the happiness of being lost in what is greater than oneself.

Thus the «incarnational» counter to contemporary Gnosticism and its ideology of «you are what you say you are» (irrespective, for example, of biology) will be less an argument than a demonstration: living in concord with the moral truths built into the world and into us, which lead to beatitude or happiness.

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.

Most of us, religious or otherwise, believe, as Asch puts it, «there are things other than «happiness» that matter: peace, justice, equality, wisdom.

Individuals feel part of a cause greater than the self - interested pursuit of personal happiness.

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.

If the married persons in his congregation were asked to rate the relative happiness of their nuptial relationship, fewer than half would rate them as «very happy» (Ibid.

This refuge once known will produce reaction on the happiness even of those who remain there, by warning their task - masters that when the evils of Egyptian oppression became heavier than those of the abandonment of country, another Canaan is open where their subjects will be received as brothers and secured against like oppression by a participation in the right of self - government.

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.

We argue that Nietzsche is embracing an ancient rather than a modern view of ethics, what has been called an «ethics of virtue» rather than an ethics of rules and principles, rather than an ethic that looks mainly to the spread of well - being and happiness («utilitarianism»).

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.

No one has contributed more to this discussion than your neighbor in Alberta, Mark Anielski, in his recent book on the economics of happiness.

atheism is a cop - out for lazy persons who are in need of experiencing happiness and truth rather than temporal pleasures.

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You try to make the point that imagining heaven and angels and joy and happiness is a better choice than accepting the world we have and working hard to improve it without divine aid instead of taking the lazy mans way out which is to wait for God to clean it all up.

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