Can their relationship survive the risks one takes when
pursuing happiness in the face of culture and tradition?
A pretty substantial pile of psychological research shows that actively
pursuing happiness as a goal simply makes us more aware of all the ways we're falling short.
You are free to believe what you like, but don't force it on anyone else and leave others to
pursue happiness without hurting others.
We're free to
pursue happiness by transforming what we've been given by nature with the security and significance of each of us in mind.
Would you feel you were being permitted to
pursue YOUR happiness if your only «freedom» in practicing religion was to practice a religion that goes against everything you believe?
With
pursuing happiness all the rage at the moment, no doubt someone has already recommended meditation to you.
It's also (at least) one of you leaving everything behind and moving across country (or much further) so you can
pursue happiness as a couple.
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.
It was only when he sold his IT consultancy, Enterprise Systems, that he decided to
pursue happiness at work.
I believe America's answers are to be found with, by, and in the individual American
honestly pursuing happiness not in 2,000 page bills.
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.
The world tells us to go and
pursue happiness for our self - fulfillment, but Jesus says to go and deny ourselves, while taking up our crosses.
Robert Bellah and colleagues, in their book, Habits of the Heart, describe this reigning value of American life: «Separated from family, religion, and calling as sources of authority, duty, and moral example, the self first seeks to work out its own form of action by
autonomously pursuing happiness and satisfying its wants.»
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.
Numerous web pages offer the opportunity for upper - class people to
pursue their happiness via rich men dating sites, which were created to bring together the ones who have not yet been favored by luck in love but have accomplished success financially.
Georges Du Fresne gives a beautiful central performance as Ludovic, the irreverent humour is a joy and this is a solidly empathetic portrayal of a
child pursuing happiness in a world that fears difference.
\ n \ nOne is only accorded the freedom and liberty to
pursue happiness if one is living and breathing after having been successfully gestated and given birth.
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.
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.
Themes like David vs. Goliath, rags to riches and
pursuing happiness at all costs are things that stretch far beyond the West Coast and far beyond this century.
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.
There's a real energy in SoCal, a real buzz — people are high energy, and feel very entitled to
pursue their happiness with absolute vigor.
«The Constitution only guarantees you the right to
pursue happiness.
It is about being proud that you belong to a country where people will fight to preserve our precious liberties, will fight to defend the downtrodden, will give everybody a fair chance to
pursue happiness, as they define it.
Marriage, the fundamental institution of civil society, remains the best protector of the rights of children to
pursue happiness.
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Pursue your 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.
Now is not the time to
pursue happiness.
We praise and thank you for granting us the life and the liberty by which we can
pursue happiness.
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.
The Declaration of Independence proclaims that we each have an inalienable and individual right to
pursue happiness.
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.
I have the right to
pursue happiness, I have the freedom of religion right too, and that means freedom from religion.