happiness

It is essential to our well-being, our health, our happiness.

The derived happiness from the constructive work.

"This was the highest and most desirable form of pleasure and happiness for the ancient Epicureans," Soupios says.

However, merely having contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age.

I offer a simple proposition in response: Many of our problems—class attendance, educational success, student happiness and well-being—might be improved by cutting down the bureaucratic mechanisms and meetings and instead hiring an army of good teachers.

Just lengthening that second stage of full-time work may secure the financial assets needed for a 100-year life, but such persistent work will inevitably exhaust precious intangible assets such as productive skills, vitality, happiness, and friendship.

They choose purpose over happiness—having a clear sense of purpose even reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

We all have our own ideas about what would bring our parents happiness.

In its2011-2012survey,the World Economic Forum ranked Sweden as the "rock star of the recovery"in the Washington Post,also leads the world in life satisfaction and happiness.

But economists who study the relationship between money and happiness have consistently found that, above a certain income, the two do not reliably correlate.

More money does not necessarily bring greater happiness

It is actually something deeper than mere happiness: it is joy, which the monk（僧侶）David Steindl-Rast describes as "that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.

It is a sign of happiness and confidence.

All these effects held true for measures of happiness, life satisfaction and self-esteem, with the effects stronger in the 8th and l0th-graders.

And in today's program, we're looking at the results of two recently published surveys, which both deal with the same topic—happiness at work.

As long as robots add to the sum of human happiness, reduce suffering, and create time to read world-class journalism, we should be their fans.

Few political libraries are without a copy of Nudge : Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein.

For one experiment, researchers developed an app to analyze the relationship between daydreaming and happiness.

However, higher doses of screen time were clearly associated with lower happiness.

The year when most Americans began using smartphones was identified as a turning point in young Americans’ level of happiness.

This was found across measures like self-esteem, life satisfaction, happiness and satisfaction with individual domains like job, neighborhood, or friends.

TV might make you less happy, but this is not what seems to be driving the recent declines in young people's average happiness.

We may instead find ourselves feeling guilty about the time we didn't spend watching our children grow all with our loved ones, or travelling or on the cultural or leisure suits that bring us happiness.

I was in a place of pure happiness.

It's great to share in other people's happiness.

The emotional, physical and mental energy mothers devote to their children can be never-ending, but children are also sources of great joy and happiness.

The next morning, however, their happiness disappeared.

Walking through the rooms and talking with the owners, a nice elderly couple, we felt the warmth and happiness of the marriage within that home.

All of which would, of course, have a positive effect on our happiness levels.

And in that, once more, we need to look to the example of our children, to whom happiness is not a goal but a natural byproduct of the way they live.

And new research suggests that happiness might influence how firms work, too.

As adults, it seems that we're constantly pursuing happiness, often with mixed results.

But it is really happiness that's linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities explain why firms there spend more on R and D?

firms seem to invest more in places where most people are relatively happy, rather than in places with happiness inequality.

Furthermore, these losses make us mature and eventually move us toward future opportunities for growth and happiness.

Happiness is not a point future and not a moment from the past, but a mindset that can be designed into the present.

Money may not quite buy happiness, but people in wealthier countries are generally happier than those in poor ones.

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense

So they compared U.S. cities' average happiness measured by Gallup Polling with the investment activity of publicly traded firms in those areas.

Sure enough, firms'investment and R&D intensity were correlated with the happiness of the area in which they were headquartered.

That's because happiness is linked to the kind of longer-term thinking necessary for making investments for the future.

The correlation between happiness and investment was particularly strong for younger firms, which the authors attribute to "less codified decision making process" and the possible presence of "younger and less experienced managers who are more likely to b

The relationship was also stronger in places where happiness was spread more equally.

The researchers wanted to know if the optimism and inclination for risk-taking that comes with happiness would change the way companies invested.

They link between happiness and investment generally held even after accounting for these things.

Too much happiness can be destructive.

Too often we believe that, a new job, bigger house or better car will be the magic silver bullet that will allow us to finally be content, but the reality is these things have little lasting impact on our happiness levels.