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    happines. Happiness has to be continuous‚ which nothing can stop one person from obtaining it‚ except for his or her intention to suspend. Additionally‚ happiness relates to reasoning activities because the reasoning process is what makes humans unique. Happiness is also the best way  to become self-sufficient as one can practice the process without the external requirement‚ only the brain is required. In order to satisfy these condition‚ Aristotle concludes contemplative life is the best life. However

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    "Happiness is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy”. Notice that "happiness" is within the range of "contentment" to "intense joy." Every single thing in the world which brings contentment or joy costs money and therefore‚ it is money which brings happiness. Nothing can be yours without money being spent either by the person experiencing this happiness‚ or by others spending money so that they can be happy. For example‚ even people

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    What exactly is happiness? How do I get there? What does it mean to be happy? These are all questions we ask ourselves‚ yet no one really knows the answer to them. Happiness: the state of being happy. That’s the literal definition anyway‚ but what’s the personal one? Happiness can be described in many different ways. We‚ ourselves‚ loves‚ likes‚ guilty pleasures all define our happiness. It’s definitely not just a “one size fits all” definition. Happiness is a lot of things‚ but it’s also not a lot

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    Real Happiness By: Julie Ann De Villa Sadsad “Unending happiness is a bore; one should have ups and downs in life”. As a living creature‚ obstacles shadow our existence. And yet‚ we all think that this would break our HAPPINESS‚ the thing that we are all dreading and longing for. Well‚ nobody can deny that matter‚ because it has been proven beyond the shadow of doubt‚ that we‚ individuals all need happiness in life. We actually strive to find something to quench our thirst in happiness in every

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    The United States- China Student Summit was a life changing experience for me. Many years of dreaming to visit a beautiful place with such rich history soon became a reality for me. The speakers from the summit were phenomenal‚ but the one speaker who intrigued me the most was Tiziano Peccenini. Before he began his speech‚ I had read his background information and purpose in his book‚ which was waiting in my chair when I had arrived to Peking University. As I read the book’s preface and introduction

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    Professor: Tanja Krupa English Composition Date: 3/18/2013 Tuesday Happiness On the life—and suicide—of happiness researcher Philip Brickman‚ Jennifer Senior‚ who has written dozens of articles for New York magazine from 2004 through 2011‚ writes: “There’s an untold distance between knowing happiness and knowing about it.”(428) ‘Sometimes‚ to our blinking incomprehension‚ the distance can only be measured in the space between this life and the next.’(428) Jennifer also writes. It is true. The distance

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    Search for Happiness” is indeed very tempting‚ and admittedly “happiness” has been quite a ubiquitous topic when you are almost in your mid twenties. Personally‚ I don’t think I have problems with being happy although I might appear very quiet and shy most of the time. Don’t get me wrong. Just like everyone‚ I have my down and up time‚ time when I question myself and what the future hold‚ time when I see others are doing greater and time when I yelled the F word more than I am supposed to. Life still

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    Happiness is a gift that we can all enjoy if we choose to; it enters your life when you let your thinking patterns take a more positive angle. Rather than coming to negative conclusions hastily‚ the key is taking time to think about a situation in its entirety. A new angle will reveal itself which will make you understand why things happened the way they did. There is always the opportunity to be happy around every corner as the quotation by James Oppenheim states: "The foolish man seeks happiness

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    Money isn’t the source of making someone happy. Happiness is achieved by people accomplishing their goals in life and becoming successful. In the book‚ The Great Gatsby‚ the main character Jay was dedicated to being rich‚ but that wasn’t his goal. In order to reach his goal in life and be truly happy he needed to be with the one person he loved and that was Daisy. Similar to this idea in the book‚ The Wolf Of Wall Street‚ Jordan Belfort the main character always wanted more and more as he could never

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    changed since Epicurus wrote on his philosophy of happiness around 307 BC‚ but in this century we can still obtain happiness as long as we have Epicurus’ three foundations of freedom‚ friendship and an analyzed life. He says that happiness does not come from money and money is not required to obtain happiness as long as the essentials are met. (de Botton‚ ND) There is comfort taken in the ideas of Epicurus because the three things needed for happiness can be accessed by everyone. The philosophy of Epicurus

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