Today the United Nations will discuss happiness. Does happiness contribute to the well-being of the world? Tom Barefoot, co-coordinator of Gross National Happiness USA, believes that having a sound economy might be less important than having a country filled with happy people. How do we measure — or achieve — something so abstract?
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Tell the United Nations that life and liberty come before happiness and even then the US government only allows for the pursuit of it and not the issuing of it; as if they could.
The people in North Korea all look incandescently happy. Maybe that moment of silence for Kim Jung-Il at the UN was well deserved.
Relaxation is the key. A 30-60 minute relaxation period (yoga, stretching, meditation, walking, napping) needs to be incorporated into all days, and be viewed as a critical component to happiness, not an "extra."
Maybe happiness really comes from learning to pay attention to what is really happening around you, rather than by glossing over things.
I think you find more heights to climb if you see the mountains, rather than by painting every thing as a kind of flatland of wishful imagery.
Of course we hope that others find God, and we hope that we don't fall away from his friendship.
the way to happiness is to discover an empathy booster vaccine.
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