" Happiness " on this account is defined as the maximization of pleasure and the minimization of pain.

Piron is the author of a book in French, Le bonheur clés en main ( The Keys to Happiness ), which distinguishes among pleasure, happiness and joy.

" Cumberland emphasizes that desiring the well-being of our fellow humans is essential to the " pursuit of our own Happiness.

Happiness is not inextricably linked to optimism, nor is pessimism inextricably linked to unhappiness.

Adams refers to Sidgwick ’ s observation that “ Happiness ( general as well as individual ) is likely to be better attained if the extent to which we set ourselves consciously to aim at it be carefully restricted .” Trying to apply the utility calculation on each and every occasion is likely to lead to a sub-optimal outcome.

* " Happiness is hearing an intellectual laugh!

This is why one of Sukkot's liturgical aliases, ( zman simḥatenu, " Time of Our Happiness ,") continues to be used to describe Shemini Atzeret ( and by extension Simchat Torah ) in prayers.

It is available for tour, which is where Elvis Presley first recorded " My Happiness " and " That's When Your Heartaches Begin ".

The ' deluxe ' version also included a 128-page book that incorporated lyrics, artwork and, as was the case with Anoraknophobia, Marbles and Happiness is the Road, the names of people who pre-ordered the album.

A similar earlier example is " Happiness is a Warm Gun " by The Beatles.

The melody of Maamme is also used for the national anthem of Estonia with a similarly themed text, Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm, My Fatherland, My Happiness and Joy ( 1869 ).

* Happiness is a Warm Gun.

The screenplay was written by H. G. Wells and is a loose adaptation of his own 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come and his 1931 non-fiction work, The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind.

A famous claim of the self-evidence of a moral truth is in the United States Declaration of Independence, which states, " We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

When seeing someone for the last time before the new year, it is conventionally to say 良いお年を ( yoi o-toshi wo ), " Have a good New Year "; once the new year has started and one sees someone again for the first time, one instead says a greeting such as 明けましておめでとう ( akemashite o-medetō ) " Happiness on the opening ( of a new year )".

# Divine Benevolence, or an Attempt to Prove That the Principal End of the Divine Providence and Government is the Happiness of His Creatures ( 1731 )

" " What is Happiness?

However, this subjectivism is balanced by a kind of sensitive holism in the famous section called " The Happiness of Fish " ( 魚之樂, yúzhīlè ).

In the 1968 release of The Small Faces ' LP Ogdens ' Nut Gone Flake, Stanley Unwin's narration for " Happiness Stan " is an example of his personal interpretation of Gobbledygook.

Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.

Happiness is characteristic of a good life, that is, a life in which a person fulfills human nature in an excellent way.

De Botton's aim is to improve the appreciation of good contemporary architecture – and seems a practical continuation of his theoretical work on architecture in his book The Architecture of Happiness.

The idea that the ultimate good exists and is not orderable but is globally measurable is reflected in various ways in economic ( classical economics, green economics, welfare economics, Gross National Happiness ) and scientific ( positive psychology, the Science of morality ) well-being measuring theories, all of which focus on various ways of assessing progress towards that goal, a so-called Genuine Progress Indicator.

The story is about a girl called Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl seeking happiness, represented by The Blue Bird of Happiness, aided by the good fairy Bérylune.

Happiness returns to Friedrich's life as he realizes Eva will be a good mother for his children.

* The Way to Happiness Foundation, dedicated to disseminating Hubbard's " non-religious moral code ", which consists of 21 precepts such as " Don't be promiscuous ", " Do not harm a person of good will " and " Respect the religious beliefs of others "

* The life of Proclus, or On Happiness: written by his pupil, Marinus

The major motion picture based on her life, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, was released in 1958.

I heard these words: " All men are created equal ; they are given certain rights ; among these are life, Liberty and Happiness.

In another instance, a government-produced Yiddish film called Seekers of Happiness told the story of a Jewish family that fled the Great Depression in the United States to make a new life for itself in Birobidzhan.

To remove a mans life, liberty or Happiness and call it law was very clearly detailed as being out of bounds.

* The World Database of Happiness – a register of scientific research on the subjective appreciation of life.

In the article " Finding Happiness after Harvard " George Vaillant concludes a study on what aspects of life are important for " successful living ".

The Ingrid Bergman film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is based on her life, with an actor portraying Younghusband.

Barbara Leaming writes in her biography of Hayworth, If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth ( 1989 ) that, due to her fondness for alcohol and the stresses of her life, Hayworth aged before her time.

# Happiness is A Warm Gun ( September 13, 1987 ) – Alan B ' Stard, a deceitful, lecherous, and brutal yuppie who has made his fortune via a variety of shady deals and frauds, is elected as the Conservative MP for the constituency of Haltemprice in Yorkshire, after having the brake lines cut on the cars of his Labour and SDP opponents on the eve of the election, putting them on life support and giving him " the largest majority in Parliament.

And the prevailing philosophy of life would be a kind of Higher Utilitarianism, in which the Greatest Happiness principle would be secondary to the Final End principle – the first question to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: " How will this thought or action contribute to, or interfere with, the achievement, by me and the greatest possible number of other individuals, of man's Final End?

Happiness in life then, includes the virtues, and Aristotle adds that it would include self-sufficiency ( autarkeia ), not the self-sufficiency of a hermit, but of someone with a family, friends and community.

In a subsequent book, Discovering The Secrets of Happiness, Keyes commented, about this period of his life, that his disability may have been a disguised blessing :" Perhaps I would have been so caught up in the business and social rat race that I wouldn't have sat still long enough to study my security, sensation and power illusions — and then discover how to deal with them so I could open up my heart to loving more.

Palmer kept writing until the end of his life and published a number of different written works including " A Fourth of July Oration " ( 1797 ), and was also the author of The Principles of Nature, or A Development of the Moral Causes of Happiness and Misery among the Human Species.

In direct contrast to his third incarnation, this Doctor was absolutely opposed to violence of any sort ( as demonstrated in stories such as Battlefield, where he stops a battle merely by ordering the warriors to desist ) and he was totally against the use of firearms ( to the extent of ' talking down ' a soldier ordered to execute him in The Happiness Patrol by emphasising the easiness of the kill versus the enormity of ending a life ), although he also proved capable of rendering a man unconscious with a touch ( Battlefield, Survival ).

After the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising ( August – October 1944 ) he again consciously risked his life when retrieving a manuscript from the gutter, where a German soldier had hurled it ( this and other materials were later published as a book, in English translation titled Analysis of Happiness ).

David Elliott has conceived and curated a large number of exhibitions including: ‘ Art and Power: Europe under the dictators 1933 – 1945 ’ ( 1995 ); ‘ Wounds: between democracy and redemption in contemporary art ’ ( 1998 ); ‘ After the Wall: art and culture in post-Communist Europe ’ ( 1999 ); ‘ Organising Freedom: Nordic art in the ’ 90s ’ ( 2000 ); ‘ Tokyo Young Artists ’ Video Initiative ’ ( 2001 ); ‘ Absences ’ ( 2002 ); ‘ Happiness: a survival guide for art and life ’ ( 2003 ); ‘ Africa Remix: the contemporary art of a continent ’ ( 2004 ); ‘ Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Where is Our Place ?’ ( 2004 ); ‘ Follow Me!

Over the course of the 100-page story, Mashechka finds that married life and her feelings for Mikhaylych are much more complex than she had thought and have little to do with her previous, slightly naive, notions of marriage, hence the ironic overtones of the title, " Family Happiness ".

This, along with the story of a young disabled man's sexual awakening as family life crumbles around him makes Sixth Happiness an interesting exploration of modern, urban India.