It is time that we all realized that we are the secret to our own happiness. Happiness is a choice that we make within. God loves us and gives each one of us the ability to fill our lives with love, joy, peace, happiness, and oneness with Him. We need only choose to do so moment by moment and day by day.
It doesn’t matter what our outer circumstances are either, because the Kingdom of Heaven is within us. Don’t spend the rest of your life searching the world for happiness then.
黎明的英文Just look in the mirror and laugh. Just let the happiness flow from your heart, mind, and soul until it fills your life and the lives of all those around you.
手工树Oh, no. Here comes another study about happiness. We can't seem to do enough of these paeans to cheerfulness. In the last few months alone, the British Medical Journal suggested that having a happy close friend boosts our own odds of being happy by 25%; the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological
Sciences pointed to evidence that optimism and pessimism are genetically determined; and the website happier, which, according to its mission statement, "measures, tracks and improves happiness," launched an iPhone application that allows users to keep a mobile "gratitude journal" (just don't be grateful while driving).
The latest installment comes in the form of the Gallup Healthways Well-Being Index, a huge poll (it used a random sample of 355,000 Americans) designed to measure people's daily well-being and describe its correlation to where they live and work. The survey revealed which U.S. states (and, indeed, which congressional districts within those states) were the healthiest and happiest in six categories: life satisfaction, work quality, healthy behavior, physical health, emotional health and basic access to necessities such as food and shelter.
The big winner was Utah, followed by Hawaii, Wyoming, Colorado and Minnesota. The state with the worst sense of well-being was West Virginia. Michigan, Ohio, Mississippi an
The big winner was Utah, followed by Hawaii, Wyoming, Colorado and Minnesota. The state with the worst sense of well-being was West Virginia. Michigan, Ohio, Mississippi an
d Kentucky filled out the list of the five worst states.
What are we to conclude from this? Well, let's see: Utah happens to have an unemployment rate of 4.6%, versus the national average of 7.6% (according to January numbers). West Virginia, for its part, has one of the weakest state economies in the country. As for the congressional districts, California's 14th, which includes the lush, plush Silicon Valley cities of Palo Alto and Mountain View, ranked first. The losers: the coal-mining country of Kentucky's 5th District and New York's 16th District, which includes the famously blighted South Bronx.
The study was concerned in large part with quality-of-life issues such as access to outdoor recreation (hence the high marks for Utah and Hawaii) and access to affordable housing and healthcare. But even though spokesmen for the poll may not want to put that fine a point on it -- an Associated Press report said a Gallup researcher was "reluctant to explain regional differences without more study, but suspected that some of the variations
What are we to conclude from this? Well, let's see: Utah happens to have an unemployment rate of 4.6%, versus the national average of 7.6% (according to January numbers). West Virginia, for its part, has one of the weakest state economies in the country. As for the congressional districts, California's 14th, which includes the lush, plush Silicon Valley cities of Palo Alto and Mountain View, ranked first. The losers: the coal-mining country of Kentucky's 5th District and New York's 16th District, which includes the famously blighted South Bronx.
The study was concerned in large part with quality-of-life issues such as access to outdoor recreation (hence the high marks for Utah and Hawaii) and access to affordable housing and healthcare. But even though spokesmen for the poll may not want to put that fine a point on it -- an Associated Press report said a Gallup researcher was "reluctant to explain regional differences without more study, but suspected that some of the variations
are explained by income" -- it appears that Randy Newman may have been right when he sang "it's money that matters." Or, perhaps more accurately, it's that Puff Daddy's lyric, "young, black and famous, with money hangin out the anus," was an encomium to inner peace.
In either case, the current economic calamity has most of us poised for some serious unhappiness. Even if we're lucky enough to have avoided unhappy friends or pessimistic genes (not so for me; when I was small, my father sat me down and told me "happiness is an illusion" -- he then offered me a cherry Life Saver), chances are most of us are suffering some measure of financial anxiety. So does that doom us to West Virginia levels of misery?
Possibly. When I submitted to an assessment on happier, which asked questions such as how often I felt proud of myself and what kind of mood I was in most of the time, I scored a rather grim 65 out of a possible 100 (though I guess if I weren't a pessimist, I'd s
In either case, the current economic calamity has most of us poised for some serious unhappiness. Even if we're lucky enough to have avoided unhappy friends or pessimistic genes (not so for me; when I was small, my father sat me down and told me "happiness is an illusion" -- he then offered me a cherry Life Saver), chances are most of us are suffering some measure of financial anxiety. So does that doom us to West Virginia levels of misery?
Possibly. When I submitted to an assessment on happier, which asked questions such as how often I felt proud of myself and what kind of mood I was in most of the time, I scored a rather grim 65 out of a possible 100 (though I guess if I weren't a pessimist, I'd s
ee 65 as a passing grade). It then suggested I do an online exercise on "controlling negative thoughts," in which I was asked to quickly solve a series of anagrams and then record how I felt about myself as I attempted to do so.
无翼鸟As it happened, the test made me feel terrible about myself. Then I learned that all but two of the anagrams were unsolvable and that the exercise was developed to help me "gain more control" of my "thinking styles" and "identify the adversity" I was experiencing."
In other words, I shouldn't have been so hard on myself for erroneously surmising that "godapoo" was almost an anagram for "dog poo." I then went back and retook the happiness test and scored a 70.
Of course, even if I were one of the few people who appear to be thriving in this economy -- like oil company executives and, rather Dickensianly, shoe repairers (people are getting their shoes fixed rather than buying new ones) -- I'd probably still get a middling score on
无翼鸟As it happened, the test made me feel terrible about myself. Then I learned that all but two of the anagrams were unsolvable and that the exercise was developed to help me "gain more control" of my "thinking styles" and "identify the adversity" I was experiencing."
In other words, I shouldn't have been so hard on myself for erroneously surmising that "godapoo" was almost an anagram for "dog poo." I then went back and retook the happiness test and scored a 70.
Of course, even if I were one of the few people who appear to be thriving in this economy -- like oil company executives and, rather Dickensianly, shoe repairers (people are getting their shoes fixed rather than buying new ones) -- I'd probably still get a middling score on
that test. And that's not just because the well-being index ranked my congressional district 416th out of 435 (I attribute that entirely to the overcrowded parking lot at Trader Joe's). It's because ultimately my father was right.
文艺晚会方案
If we believe the results of many of these studies, which suggest that life satisfaction is mostly a matter of perception, then happiness is an illusion. It also happens to be an illusion that can seem a lot more real when paired with cash. Now excuse me while I drop $200 on an iPhone so I can start that mobile gratitude journal.
文艺晚会方案
If we believe the results of many of these studies, which suggest that life satisfaction is mostly a matter of perception, then happiness is an illusion. It also happens to be an illusion that can seem a lot more real when paired with cash. Now excuse me while I drop $200 on an iPhone so I can start that mobile gratitude journal.
Work and happiness
Whether work should be placed among the causes of happiness or among the causes of unhappiness may perhaps be regarded as doubtful question. There is certainly much work which is exceedingly irksome, and an excess of work is always very painful. I think, however, that, provided work is not excessive in amount, even the dullest work is to most people less painful than idleness. There are in work all grades, from mere relief of tedium
up to the profoundest delights, according to the nature of the work and the abilities of the worker. Most of the work that most people have to do is not in itself interesting, but even such work has certain great advantages. To begin with, it fills a good many hours of the day without the need of deciding what one should do. Most people, when they are left free to fill their own time according to their own choice, are at a loss to think of anything sufficiently pleasant to be worth doing. Moreover, the exercise of choice is in itself tiresome. Except to people with unusual initiative, it is positively agreeable to be told what to do at each hour of the day, provided the orders are not too unpleasant, most of the idle rich suffer unspeakable boredom as the price of their freedom from drudgery. Accordingly the more intelligent rich men work nearly as hard as if they were poor, while rich women for the most part keep themselves busy with innumerable trifles of whose earth-shaking importance they are firmly persuaded.
申请和请示的区别工作与幸福
工作究竟应算作幸福的根源，还是不幸的根源，这也许还是个疑问。当然，有许多工作极
其令人厌烦，工作负担过重也总是令人十分痛苦。但我认为，假如工作负担不是过重，对大多数人来说，即时是最乏味的工作也没有无所事事那样痛苦。根据工作性质和工作者的能力，可以把工作分成各种层次，从单单是排遣烦闷一直到能带来深层快乐。大多数人必须做的大多数工作本身并没有趣味，但即便是这样的工作也有一些极大的好处。首先，它占去了一天中相当多的时间，使你不必拿主意自己该干什么。在可以自由选择如何消磨时间的时候，大多数人都茫然不知所措，想不出一件很有意思的事值得去做。再说作出选择本身就是一件麻烦事。除了对极有主见的人而外，听命于他人每天中的每个小时做什么完全是一件惬意的事，只要指令并不极为令人生厌就行。多数有闲的富人，作为摆脱艰辛工作的代价，忍受着难以形容的无聊。因此，较明智的有钱男人几乎就像没钱那样勤奋工作，而富有的女人通常忙于武术鸡毛蒜皮的小事，并深信这些琐事有着惊天动地的重要性。
The secret of happiness
Once there lived a king of great strength and wealth. Yet he was not happy. He told his servants to find him things to make him happy, but each came back saying,” Noting in the
world can match the wonderful things you have already.” Then in that land, there lived a poor man with a patch over one eye and a crutch to help him walk. Although he had little, he was always happy.When the king heard of this, he asked the man to teach him his secret.
"I never push." the man replied,” and I never rush. Most of all, I never wish for too much.” Then he smiled and was gone.
If you would make a man happy, do not add to his possessions but subtract from his desires.
快乐的秘诀
从前有一位国王，很有权力和财富，然而他并不快乐。他告诉仆人去可以使他快乐的东西，但是每个回来的人都说：“世界上没有什么比得上你已经拥有的极好的东西。”当时那个国家住着一个穷人，他一个眼睛戴着眼罩并靠拐杖走路。虽然他拥有的很少，但是他总是很快乐。当国王听说这件事的时候，他要求这个人教他快乐的秘诀。我的幸福英文 “我从来不强迫，”这个人答道，“而且我从不匆忙。最重要的是，我从不希望得到太多。”然后，他笑着离开了。
如果你想使一个人快乐，不要增加他的财产，而是要减少他的欲望。
Money and Happiness
Some people believe that money is the source of happiness. With money they can buy everything they need in the world. They believe money is power. For example, if one has lots of money, he can go to a good university for better education and have a satisfactory job after graduation, make even more money, and buy a luxurious house or whatever he desires. No doubt he will live happily.
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