We have a happiness set point, much like we have a set point for how much we weigh.
He hopes to have his happiness app up and running in March 2014.
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The researchers took their results and compared them against census data and found that wealthy areas tended to have higher happiness levels and that areas with high rates of obesity has lower happiness levels.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have been essential to millions of American small businesses.
Men have a slight happiness advantage, reporting higher levels of well-being than women.
Attempts at describing a definitely other- worldly happiness have been no more successful.
Ever since that time I have believed that happiness and true adulthood would be mine at the moment of dog ownership.
In recent years, some economists have focused on happiness and other measures of subjective well-being that aren't fully captured by traditional gauges of wealth and income.
Studies of happiness in several countries have found that money makes little difference to perceptions of happiness, except among the very poor.
All of the countries above the US have a lower corporate income tax rate than the US. Thus the secret to happiness is to have a lower corporate income tax rate.
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The technological and material success does not seem to have brought joy and happiness to many people.
Several books have been written about happiness in recent years.
Human beings spend a lot of time trying to figure out what will make them happy, but not nearly enough time trying to hang on to the happiness they already have.
Being a contributer to the marriage, not just financially but with their actions will have a significant effect on the happiness of both spouses.
Over the past 7 years, more of our fellow citizens have discovered that the pursuit of happiness leads to the path of service.
They are entrepreneurs who have pursued life, liberty and happiness.
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"I wrestled with how to reconcile my Christian faith with my desire for Will to have the same opportunities to pursue happiness and fulfillment as his brother and sister, " he wrote in the op-ed.
Like so many others who have been named Champions of Change, I must first express my happiness for having found work that not only employs what capabilities I may have, and that affords an opportunity to work with so many people of enormous talent and dedication, but that is also useful to others in the worldwide community.
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Remember, scientists have shown us we can increase our happiness, optimism, and our motivation.
In addition, we see career advancement programs have a big impact on overall employee happiness.
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But nor should they have become embroiled in debating what constitutes happiness and how it can be measured.
As a parent, I know that seeing your kids do extraordinary things brings the greatest happiness that a parent can have.
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Some previous winners of eye-popping jackpots have found it didn't buy happiness.
Some academics have spent years pursuing the link between happiness and money.
Over the last decade, researchers in Positive Psychology have discovered a number of behaviors that boost happiness.
The members of Superhuman Happiness are a busy lot who have backed countless musicians in the studio and on stage.
Researchers at Cambridge University have developed an app that tries to track happiness by combining smartphone data with users' perception of mood.
Philosophers since Plato have penned millions of words attempting to define happiness.
Mr. Kay could have pursued his juxtaposition of the paradoxes of happiness and profit a bit further, for they show a revealing difference.
It is hard to claim that pyramid-shaped tea-bags (developed at great expense over four years) have added much to the sum of human happiness.
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