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Assessing happiness and its process 39 Articles

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    by Gool Bugwadia

    Quest for Happiness Happiness is a voyage and not a destination. Happiness is the sum total of our emotional experience as we journey through life. It is a choice. It is how we perceive things. We can't inherit it or bu...read more

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    by Isaac Amani

    THE ART OF BEING HAPPY "Being happy" is an art, a skill and habit you can instill or implant into your life. It means you can practice being happy until you make it a conscious skill and consequently an unconscious habi...read more

  • by Lucien Flahaut

    "Will this pleasure bring but a momentary delight , or real, lasting satisfaction? It makes a difference in the quality of our life and...read more

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    by Joseph Opare

    Satisfaction is something that we all seem to be looking for, and on some points of our lives we find ourselves happy. But then there are days when some of us find ourselves in a melancholy state as birthdays quickly appro...read more

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    by Elaine Sihera

    I once told a fellow whom I loved that his love for me was the icing on the cake, but the love for myself was the cake itself! I was supremely happy with me as I was, and any other attention, though most welcomed, I regard...read more

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    by titus james

    Happiness is Happy in and of itself; even the pronunciation of the word engenders a feeling of being it. But what does it mean to be Happy and is being Happy what we should be striving for? Dictionary.com defines the w...read more

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    by Janice Hampton

    How to Have a Happy Morning How Happy Are You When Your Day Begins? Imagine a typical morning at your house. Pretend you are still in bed. What thoughts run through your mind as you start your day? Do you immedi...read more

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    by Trenna Sue Hiler

    Sometimes the handiest tool when making an assessment is a thesaurus. It tends to broaden terms and shed a little light on a situation. Take a gander at these words and see what comes to mind. Merriment Blessedness ...read more

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    by Charles Breitweiser

    Abraham Lincoln once said, "A man is as happy as he chooses to be." I do firmly believe that happiness is a choice. Happiness is an internal emotion that has nothing to do with external circumstances. If you want to be ...read more

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    by Steve Dupere

    Does happiness exist, or is humanity simply fooling itself? - Let us over-analyze shall we? Could it be that happiness is simply overrated; Or has it perhaps been undermined by the negativity we as a society have been exp...read more

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    by Isabel Fitzgerald

    A musing on happiness. Happiness is a word that people strive to live for. Its interesting to think that an emotion, a feeling is associated to a word. How do you describe a feeling? I often think words are used in such...read more

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    by Sweetsmile

    Happiness is an honor that bestowed to human being by God. Every one of us wants to get happiness, however happiness is not for all of us, for the key point is that if we know the access to happiness and if we know the pro...read more

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    by Christine G.

    DR. URSA'S HAPPINESS HIERARCHY If you want happiness for an hour - write a story, a poem, or an article, or read one. (If you're too tired to enjoy that, take a nap or do a crossword puzzle or play a musical instrument...read more

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    by The Hitchhiker

    There are, I would argue, two ways to achieve true happiness: 1. Living a "virtuous" life. This is the idea that if you live a life of moderation, you will achieve happiness. So for example, you need to be courageous ...read more

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    by Kedar Kumar

    Happiness is something many of us strive for. Why is it so hard to achieve, especially at times when you need it the most? How do we change a gloomy mood into a lighter or happier one? There are some things within our ...read more

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    by Dorothy Wilde

    Happiness lies within you. All you need to do is look for it, identify it and regard it as a precious gift of God. Happiness is no-doubt one of the most precious gifts of God to the mankind. All you need to do is find it w...read more

  • by Josh Easterday

    You can't be happy until your happy in your own skin. Until your comfortable with who you are, what you look like, and what you feel. Took me forever to get there but now I am. In school, it was uncool if you didn't l...read more

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    by Daniel Booy

    Happiness is both an internal and an external process: one is at once happy in virtue of how he or she interacts with the world, and happy in virtue of how the world interacts with one. It is easy - one might say 'sim...read more

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    by Raison d'e-tre

    Family, love, money, knowledge Strangely though, there are only 4 simple things in life to possess that can make you happy. Simply said, here is the list. Family, you have them, I have too, most of you should have an...read more

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    by Writer M

    A "young man" celebrating his 86th birthday once told me, "I don't get mad anymore, I decided to be happy." I thought to myself, how is this possible. It just can't be. I later found that the old saying, "practice makes p...read more

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