But he said that people could not attain happiness through prayer, and that "this happy life is not a religious concept". Happiness, he said, is a secular concept, so "our aim is secular". "I'm Buddhist," he said.
The principles of resource allocation can help people attain happiness at home.
Aristotle, however, argues that virtuous conduct is the governing factor in living well and attaining happiness.
By E. B. White The New Yorker, September 27 , 1930 P. 17Difficulty of attaining happiness in the hurried life of the city.
According to Layard and Nettle, at least two forces prevent us from attaining happiness through material goods.
Witness the explosion of happiness studies, guides and manuals directed towards "attaining" happiness and manifold commercial exploits that specify "happiness" as a defining objective.
4. If, then, the perfect life is within human reach, the man attaining it attains happiness: if not, happiness must be made over to the gods, for the perfect life is for them alone.
The structure, he continued, needed to be "one in harmony with the natural elements so that we would attain happiness, good health and prosperity in all that we do, for the good of our children and generations to come".
Included in this theme are views concerning the supreme rulers who follow the founder, their qualifications, and how the community must be ordered so that its members attain happiness as citizens rather than isolated human beings.
The oral induces a powerful yearning for money to bring happiness; the anal induces the subject to excrete money to attain happiness; and the displacing wow-factor causes the subject to dismiss as irrelevant to the pursuit of happiness anything that does not concern money.
