Leaving The Past Happiness is something that everyone strives to create and continue to push for. But happiness is not that simple and can not be created by something. people have to accept life for what it is and not try to make up for the past‚ people should not try to create happiness like Granny weatherall a woman who attempted so many times to create her own happiness and feel better after being left at the alter. People need to accept their past‚ live on and know that they have accepted
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The inventor and statesman Benjamin Franklin said‚ “Money never made a man happy yet nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.”Money can and in most cases does buy you everything your heart wishes. With money you would be able to live a comfortable life with everything you wanted around. You can have flat screen TV’s to expensive jewelry‚ the sky is the limit when you’re spoiling with the benefits of your hard work. But does that necessarily make you happy? Would having everything
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Can money bring a happy life? It’s kind of ironic that many of us would never stop looking for more and more ways to make money believing that having plenty of it guarantees invariable happiness‚ lots of friends‚ comfortable life and very bright future- when there are millions out there whose lives ‚ families and future got helplessly ruined by none other than the same- money. Now we can see that everything has two sides and money‚ of course‚ has two sides- the good and the bad. When money
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Money could never make me happier than my family. Just being able to spend time at the house or wherever we are makes me the happiest. Money couldnt bring the bond we have for each other. Money can buy you fancy things but it cant buy you love and happy memories that come from your family. Money can make me feel happy‚ but in a superficial way. Money is more of a want and not a need for me. If I lost all of my money and all of my belongings I could still be happy.
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In Books 9-11 of the Nicomachean Ethics‚ Aristotle works to segregate the explanations of happiness as a result of fortune and happiness as a result of virtuous actions. However‚ after he reaches an ideologically pure explanation‚ he quickly pivots backwards‚ settling on an explanation that incorporates elements of both theories. This allows posthumous events to affect one’s state of happiness‚ impacts his definition of happiness‚ and exemplifies the text’s ideological inclusion. Before we can delve
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How Important is Happiness in Our Lives? There are many occurrences in life where we come across happiness. In this paper‚ I will relate Greek philosopher Aristotle’s words in his book Nicomachean Ethics‚ to the idea of happiness and his contrast of happiness and pleasure. Happiness is defined by Merriam-Webster as “a state of well-being and contentment; a pleasurable or satisfying experience” (Merriam-Webster). However‚ there is much more to understand about the bigger picture and full idea of
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In the Nicomachean Ethics‚ it seems odd that Aristotle emphasizes friendship so much‚ placing it above justice‚ spending more time on it than on any of the moral virtues‚ and stating that “[a]nyone who is to be happy… will need virtuous friends” (Nicomachean Ethics IX.9.1170b). Compared to the lofty virtues that Aristotle discusses in the rest of the Nicomachean Ethics‚ like justice‚ friendship seems markedly less essential for a happy life. It is easy to see friendship as a result of man’s social
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A life full of happiness is another component of the American Dream. As a whole‚ the goals of obtaining love‚ wealth‚ or a career create joy in a person; the person works for what will please them. Everyone has a different way of finding happiness‚ and the success of finding it will bring success of the American Dream. A life of difficulties makes the search for happiness not an easy task‚ but people come anyways to America with hopes of obtaining their happiness. America promises freedom‚ a relief
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From generation to generation‚ the American Dream has been constantly evolving. To Chip Fox‚ a local golf professional at Echo Hills Golf Course‚ his American Dream growing up was to get married‚ have kids‚ and have a home. Growing up‚ Fox lived in a “middle-class” family with many siblings‚ playing games outside‚ having fun and being cheerful Fox started playing golf when he was little‚ along with his older brothers‚ which ultimately helped his decision with his future profession. Fox dropped out
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What makes human life worth living? And not merely live it‚ but to live it well? The unadulterated search for happiness is innate in all human beings‚ it is a genuine goal that is sought after as a complete and sufficient good. It is desired for itself and succeeds in achieving what can be defined as a good life. Yet no matter how prominent the search for happiness is‚ there are endless definitions and explanations for our dependency on it. Aristotle argues that happiness is dependent on the
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