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

I'm not happy and I want to change and I'm done with this.

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

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

Soupios say following the 10 Golden Rules based on ancient wisdom can guide us to the path of the good life where we stop living as onlookers and become engaged and happier human beings.

Seek true pleasureTo have a meaningful, happy life we need friends.

I do not think that we spend nearly enough time trying to concentrate on achieving a sort of calmness, a sort of contentment in a mental and spiritual way, which was identified by these people as the highest form of happiness and pleasure.

Families can look a bit more for where the residents are going to be happy, Dr.Sloane said.

The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.

People should eat much less if they wish to stay healthy and happy.

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.

According to a new study from Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab, small nonfood rewards—like the toys in McDonald's Happy Meals—stimulate the same reward centers in the brain as food does.

What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities—from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under clock time vs task time.

They found clock timers to be more efficient but less happy because they felt little control over their lives.

Task timers are happier and more creative, but less productive.

Performing creative jobs tends to make workers happier.

It'll make those tasks easier, and the task-doers will be happier.

Politicians are happy to take advantage.

an increase in happy marriages.

Money is the foundation of many a happy marriage People are being lured (引誘)onto Facebook with the promise of a fun, free service without realizing they're paying for it by giving up toads of personal information

when nearly one-quarter of the workforce was unemployed, the divorce rate had declined by around 25% from 1929 But this doesn't mean people were suddenly happier with their marriages.

And by then people were just happy to have a decent quantity of food in their kitchens.

the married are happier than the unmarried

In general, each of us needs about 8 hours of sleep each day to keep us healthy and happy.

He has been particularly happy about the new equipment because many of the employees have told him how much it has helped them.

Wow, with the museums and restaurants in Washington, I'd be happy here no matter what the temperature.

Even if it all goes according to plan, will you know how to be happy when you are not working if you spend your entire life making money

I'd also be happy to pick up anything you need.

According to a new study from Cornell University's Food and BrandLab, small nonfood rewards—like the toys in McDonald's Happy Meals—stimulate the same reward centers in the brain as food does.

Among her respondents, 54 percent of those who were clinically depressed said that knitting made them feel happy or very happy.

Explaining what the data revealed, he said: "What you see is that even after three years, mental health is still better, which is unlike many other things that we think will make us happy." He observed that people living in green spaces were less stressed

Happy golden birthday! I can't wait to hear all about it when you get back.

I'm so happy to be actually on the road now.

It's a great way for me to relieve stress and pressure, and dance my way towards feeling energetic and happy again.

Student tutors feel upset when their teachable agents fail, but happy when these virtual pupils succeed as they derive pride and satisfaction from someone else's accomplishment.

The-doctors response to the question of whether or not dogs can fall in love like humans do was a straight "Of course!" He went on to say that if love is defined as a long term commitment meaning dogs seek one another out when they're apart, they're happy

To have a meaningful, happy life we need friends.

Working-class children are happier, more independent, complain less and are closer to family members, Ms.

American parents want similar things for their children, the Pew report and past research have found: for them to be healthy and happy, honest and ethical, caring and compassionate.

The survey shows us that today's teens are affectionate, sensible and far happier than the angry and tortured souls that have been painted for us by stereotypes.

Students do not merely benefit while at university; studies show- they go on to be healthier and happier than non-graduates, and also far more likely to vote.

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

Those who enjoy total freedom may not find themselves happy.

People often assume that more money will make them happier.

He was happy to see the return of the do-it-yourself spirit in America.

Mary is not happy with the ban on pet animals.

But I am not awfully happy with the idea.

Or you can pretend to like things which you are quite happy to do without.

After outlining the main points she would cover, she assured the audience that she would be happy to answer questions at the end of her presentation

Despite unemployment and the lost of her home, Andrea Clark considers herself a blessed and happy woman.

He has been particularly happy about the new equipment because many of the employees have told him how much it has helped them.

Schwartz found that while maximizers ended up with better-paying jobs than satisficers on average, they weren't as happy with their decision.

They could enjoy a happier family life.

And then they change the mood in the music either from sad to happy or the other way around.

For example, 25% of the working people interviewed described themselves as very happy at work.

It's likely you prefer to feel happy instead of sad or confident instead of insecure.

Respondents' minds tended to wander more when they felt upset rather than happy.

The researchers found that extended screen time makes young people less happy.

This suggests that babies of that age can tell the difference between a happy melody and a sad tune.

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

A study shows the students who are engaged in after-school activities are happier than those who are not.

Advertisements persuade us that newer is better and that we will be happier with the latest products.

And today when I look back, I'm so happy because you never know where life will take you.

But it makes me happy think that I'll never have to go to another training session again.

By most measurements he was a happy man.

Children aged 8 to 10 were "starting to feel happy" when others liked their posts.

For example, these robots will be able to distinguish when someone is happy or sad.

Happy and calm is the man who takes all these possibilities into consideration and arrives at the appointment either early or on time.

Harvold said, "I was happy that no one else was hurt, but I hoped that the driver would survive."

Hello everyone! I'm very happy to be invited to this program today.

I'm happy with what I can do.

It meant a happy and loving family.

Jim has retired, but he still remembers the happy time spent with his students.

Lee was very happy to see his mother taken good care of at home.

More than that, however, he was happy to see the big smile on his mother's face.

Most of all, he was happier.

Seeing something attractive seems to cause happy thinking.

She was spooning mashed potatoes and looking happy.

Soon after, I was on my way to the show, carrying a fancy black handbag and a happy smile.

The author has had happy summers ever since.

The happy ending of the story attracted him.

The loud music filled the room and made them feel very happy.

The study showed that those who had worked as boys enjoyed happier and more productive lives than those who had not.

The thing is, a number of them have admitted that despite their success, they aren't happy.

These kids are happiest when doing repairs.

They know that customers who buy the food first will feel happy so that they will buy more junk food later in their trip.

Volunteering can not only improve your community's status, it could make you happier.

You helped those people, I noticed, and you seemed so happy.

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 condition.

But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.

In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertisers assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads? Or should they have explicit permission?.

Especially, firms in happy places 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.

Having said all of the above, it's important to add that we shouldn't try too hard to be happy.

If she hopes her new-found fortune will yield lasting feelings of fulfillment, she could do worse than read Happy Money by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton.

If we know we will overreact to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face, we can take a moment before buying.

In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertises assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads?

It surely seems plausible that happy people would be more forward-thinking and creative and lean towards R&D more than the average.

It's not hard to imagine that local culture and sentiment would help shape how executives think about the future. "It surely seems plausible that happy people would be more forward-thinking and creative and lean towards R&D more than the average," said on

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

Readers of Happy Money are clearly a privileged lot, anxious about fulfillment, not hunger.

You will be happy to convince people with bad arguments.