However, teaching children about values such as love, fairness, equality, freedom, justice, happiness and truth would help both boys and girls.
Generalize this process, and the world would teem with more and more people leading less and less satisfying lives, until eventually the happiness of each individual would start to approach nil.
But even if the voting in Sabah indicated general happiness, Dr Mahathir would be wise to think again.
Ever since that time I have believed that happiness and true adulthood would be mine at the moment of dog ownership.
By measuring the smiles in the photographs the researchers were able to predict: how fulfilling and long lasting their marriages would be, how highly they would score on standardized tests of well-being and general happiness, and how inspiring they would be to others.
Tragic events would mar their happiness, but the golden glow of those Riviera summers remained.
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Yet it is not self-evident that less work would mean more happiness.
That result sits comfortably with other studies showing that, on average, Asian countries report lower levels of happiness than their GDP per head would suggest.
Allowing states to chart their separate courses would illuminate the pursuit of happiness.
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"This is the story of a man who took a while to figure out how to live a great life, then decided he would do so by creating happiness, " he says.
Briatore said he would "enjoy this moment of happiness" before discussing whether he planned to return to F1.
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He said that as president he would bring the nation twice the happiness they felt during the World Cup.
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When a dog devotes so much of herself to your happiness, it only stands to reason you would want to make that dog happy in return.
But the Ipsos study shows the highest levels of self-reported happiness not in rich countries, as one would expect, but in poor and middle-income ones, notably Indonesia, India and Mexico.
But even if a happiness index arrives, will it deliver what France would hope to see?
But unlike Strauss, Tocqueville was very modest about what kind of spirit-oriented thinking would be enough to let us pursue happiness successfully.
If Netanyahu and his associates expressed happiness at the outcome of the US elections they would be fully justified for doing so.
She knew what few, if any, feminists would tell young women today: There is far more to happiness than career success.
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We are so short-term-oriented that many of us would rather have a fatter paycheck now than set aside some of that happiness, even if the funds will be greater in the future.
That would encourage people to stay in work, which is good for health, happiness and tax revenues.
When researchers in Germany did the math, they found that the average worker would need their income to go up by a third just to offset the happiness cost of tacking on a 20-minute commute.
That would be remarkable for any nation, but especially for one so closely equated with happiness as Bhutan.
However, this does give us a clue to what I think would in fact be the one single thing we could do in order to increase happiness in our modern day society.
"In this case it would have been hard to protect or defend these boys if the whole town exclaimed in happiness at his arrest, " Dzhokhar wrote.
In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
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