different ideas about whether happiness is a state of being or a process. Arthur Schopenhauer claims that happiness is a state of mind that one must strive for‚ while Friedrich Nietzsche claims that happiness is the process of pursuing one’s desires. Martin Seligman’s concept of the three lives explains that happiness can be both a state of being and a process depending on which of the three lives one is experiencing. Both Schopenhauer’s and Nietzsche’s ideas on happiness relate to Seligman’s concepts
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Happiness is difficult to describe‚ a feeling‚ a gesture or anything that can make a person feel good‚ great‚ exceptional or just an emotion; happiness is joy. Defining happiness is impossible to do; beyond the definition are explanations of what makes a person happy. After all‚ happiness is easily recognizable on the surface‚ a smile‚ laughter or reaction to a situation an expression of words‚ show of gratitude in exchange for a sensation‚ happiness; a thank you. Each help defines happiness
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A Pursuit to Compromise Happiness Everyone that is living in the world we live in today are all making their best efforts to obtain that which we all want the most‚ happiness. Many individuals will pursue that happiness‚ while others manage to compromise that happiness. Everyone has their own methods at trying to achieve happiness‚ but sometimes they just cannot pursue it and when they realize that what they want‚ they cannot have. Their happiness will become compromised. When at the same time
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a degree‚ pursue for a masters or doctorate‚ get a job‚ and get settled in life. Then I envisaged whether our happiness is confined within these tedious steps. Moreover‚ I pondered: what is happiness? According to Webster’s dictionary‚
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Have you ever wondered if world peace is something that we truly desire? If so‚ why haven’t we started doing something in order to achieve it? I’m going to tell you why: Because it doesn’t exist. Peace has become one of the most important everlasting issues in all centuries‚ and it’s a concept that will continue to haunt future generations as long as we keep on doing nothing to make it happen. It is an utopian idea which consists of respecting each other’s beliefs and ideals. This means having
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World peace is an idea simple in principle but difficult to achieve in practice because‚ as individual members of our species‚ we have not found peace within ourselves. Societies cannot be peaceful societies until the members of the society look peacefully toward each other. But‚ it is impossible to look peacefully toward each other under constant threat for one’s survival. The quest for peace must be carried out on many fronts‚ the most important of which is for each of us to contribute our portion
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Happiness is Found Through Shared Experiences Every single person in the world will develop at least one human relationship in their lifetime. To some‚ these relationships are sacred and to be cherished‚ for others they are merely convenient affairs and affiliations. In the movie Into the Wild directed by Sean Penn‚ and the poem Warren Pryor by Alden Nowlan‚ there are two different cases involving human relationships‚ and more specifically‚ parent/child relationships. In both texts‚ the parents
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“Hector in Search of Happiness” Many people feel trapped in their life because they know what happiness really feels like. In this movie Hector a psychiatrist feels like he isn’t happy with life and isn’t making progress with any of his patients. Angoli (one of his patients) is able to read Hector’s feelings from just looking at him and she suggests Hector to go on a journey to discover what happiness is. During Hector’s journey he discovers happiness by traveling to China‚ Africa‚ and Los Angeles
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the pursuit of happiness‚ holding it as one of (if not the most) important goals achievable‚ but how much stock should we really put into this drive? As Professor Daniel Nettle argues in his book‚ Happiness: the science behind your smile‚ we are not unhappy because of our environment‚ but rather because of our nature. Happiness and consequently unhappiness is due in large part to how we address our world. The majority of people rank themselves above the average level of happiness‚ and when asked
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Research on happiness has been of interest in many parts of the world‚ in accordance with positive psychology’s goal to create a good life. According to one of the most accepted theoretical frameworks‚ Diener’s model of subjective well-being (Diener‚ 1984; Diener et al. 1999)‚ happiness refers to how people interpret their own life‚ circumstances and emotions. These evaluations are with regard to the judgments a person makes about his or her emotional states (affect balance) and life in general (life
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