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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
Everybody has the right to seek happiness.
She thinks money and happiness are the same.
I sincerely hope for his happiness.
Happiness and sadness only last for a time.
Happiness is always unexpected.
Didn't I have a right to seek the happiness I longed for?
How do you define happiness anyways?
War is depriving them of their happiness.
My happiness is overshadowed by the thought that Tom is not with us.
It may be that the happiness awaiting us is not at all the sort of happiness we would want.
My heart was filled with happiness.
The only way on Earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.
It is foolish to equate money with happiness.
It goes without saying that money cannot buy happiness.
Money can't buy happiness.
We are all in daily pursuit of happiness.
It is the greatest happiness in life to love and to be loved.
Most people want to experience happiness.
Everybody seeks happiness.
Money cannot buy happiness.
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When we were lovers, we longed for each other crazily, but. we couldn't have happiness.
There were too many witnesses to Evan's happiness.
At times of great happiness, Nurse Gilbert, it is sometimes as well to remember that others may be ploughing a less congenial path.
And the smile of his wife and her brother, and the certainty of his own happiness healing bit by bit, the wounds that the Marquis bears within.
I hope that I shall see you here soon to be witness of my happiness.
God's word is a rock in happiness and misery Firmly it stands where mountains sway.
The power that Sandro Grec holds over Ysabel makes her believe that she has truly found happiness.
And the happiness of a whole house could be ruined with witch hair and metal crosses.
The family happiness begins!
I will not be cheated of my happiness!
Happiness will shine through your ass, then. What are with these caresses?
I felt a blow, a blow of happiness.
THE JOURNEY TO HAPPINESS OF MOTHER KRAUSE restored in 1957 from a version made by Otto Nagel for the State Film Society of the GDR with new intertitles. It had an original length in 1929 after censorship of 2,846 m (125 minutes).
Do not get discouraged, as happiness comes every day.
May Allah watch over your family and bring you a lot of happiness.
I couldn't show my happiness.
How strange, fear of happiness?
I am human like other men - - I will not be cheated of my happiness!
Oh, please, Mr. Thorpe. Look, I've told you before that there can be no happiness without love.
And so I pronounce you man and wife. And may peace and happiness be yours.
Every happiness for the newlyweds!
I want my happiness, Joe.
Wish I were necessary to your happiness.
I want for my people security and happiness.
I have imagined happiness. but happiness you cannot imagine. happiness you must feel. joy you must feel.
Yellow is for happiness.
I was once a human. That love I always laughed at. also once dominated me. When we were lovers, we longed for each other crazily, but. we couldn't have happiness.
Love, Confidence, Happiness months pass by.
To your happiness, Tonischka!
My happiness.
Isn't my happiness reason enough?
My dear, of course, I wish you all happiness.
You search for happiness, and all the time it's right behind the bar.
I see happiness. I see love, far more than you can bear.
Instead, I wish you and Henry every happiness.
I wish you every happiness.
With the help of anti-fascists from all over the world civil war will give way to peace, work and happiness.
News and current affairs
As far as we know, Kundera never was an informer before or after this incident, and we cannot ignore that he later freed himself from the compulsory totalitarian happiness that communism propagated.
Reprogenetics will enable prospective parents to give their children genes that they themselves do not carry, thereby increasing their offspring's chances for health, longevity, happiness, and success - an appalling prospect for many bioethicists.
If reprogenetics is used to increase chances of health, happiness and success, what could be wrong with it?
The only alternative to this bleak possibility seems remote today and may never be viable: a single global state in which all children are provided with the same genetic enhancements and the same opportunities for health, happiness, and success.
Can We Increase Gross National Happiness?
The two are related: more tourists might boost the economy, but they would damage Bhutan's environment and culture, and so reduce happiness in the long run.
Since ancient times, happiness has been universally seen as a good.
Problems arise when we try to agree on a definition of happiness, and to measure it.
So, to measure happiness defined in that way, one would have to sample moments of people's existence randomly, and try to find out whether they are experiencing positive or negative mental states.
That may be the case with the idea of happiness as the goal of national policy.
Can we learn how to measure happiness?
Bhutan has a Gross National Happiness Commission, chaired by the prime minister, which screens all new policy proposals put forward by government ministries.
The resolution invited member states to develop additional measures that better capture the goal of happiness.
The General Assembly also welcomed an offer from Bhutan to convene a panel discussion on the theme of happiness and well-being during its 66th session, which opens this month.
And, indeed, these young people laughed and danced not only in harmony but with a joie de vivre that lit up their faces and filled us all with happiness.
Studies of happiness show that unemployment reduces happiness by as much as the loss of a family member.
But there is another critical aspect to success and happiness that is often overlooked during these garlanded celebrations of academic achievement: family.
Vladimir Putin, by contrast, exudes energy and health, and may still reassure many segments of Russian society whose main concern is their country's glory rather than its citizens' happiness.
When I first heard of Bhutan's goal of maximizing its people's happiness, I wondered if it really meant anything in practice, or was just another political slogan.
Instead, his address was a thoughtful review of the key issues involved in promoting happiness as a national policy.
One important question is whether we see happiness as the surplus of pleasure over pain experienced over a lifetime, or as the degree to which we are satisfied with our lives.
There are school and university league tables, rankings of companies on profitability or corporate social responsibility, tables of happiness indicators by country, and tables that attempt to rank consumer brands by value.
Could it help us to appreciate that many things are more central to our happiness than our ability to spend money on fashion, expensive watches, and fine dining?
In the end, surveys suggest that what people want most is not wealth so much as happiness and the satisfaction that comes from a full and meaningful life.
This is not to say that there are no health problems associated with fat, but we have created a moral panic about the impact of increased weight on society, on the family, and on our happiness.
And, in an age of pervasive anxiety, Bhutan is asking deep questions about the meaning and nature of happiness itself.
In search of a more balanced society that combines economic prosperity, social cohesion, and environmental sustainability, Bhutan famously pursues Gross National Happiness rather than Gross National Product.
Tropical Costa Rica also ranks near the top of the happiness league.
At that fluid border between old and new people craved most what they had never had: freedom of thought and expression, information, the tools to debate and define their own happiness.
Countries compete for investment, talent, growth, and opportunity in a globalized world, and those that are pushed out of the running surrender the greatest prize of all: human development, prosperity, and happiness for their people.
In Bhutan, the economic challenge is not growth in gross national product, but in gross national happiness (GNH).
Bhutan's Buddhist tradition understands happiness not as attachment to goods and services, but as the result of the serious work of inner reflection and compassion toward others.
But research conducted over many years suggests that greater wealth implies greater happiness only at quite low levels of income.