So which of our two main political parties is more concerned with achieving broad happiness, and which party is more concerned with unfulfilling selfishness?
Christian monastics cultivate a state known as charmolypi, joy-sorrow: tears for the woes of the world, and gratitude for God's mercy.But on a more earthly level, sociologists agree that the practice of a faith and broad happiness with life do seem to be related, though nobody has much idea why.
And it cites with approval Guangdong province's experiments with using a broad "happiness" index to judge local progress and reward the bureaucrats responsible.The capital-intensity of China's growth has also left workers with a relatively small slice of the national cake.
It's a little like eagerness, a little like a comforting exhale, but Americans are likely to equate it to something broader: happiness.
During the Autumn Festival, however, the show broadcast a multi-episode holiday special to capture, candid-camera style, "voices of the people" on an extraordinarily broad subject: happiness.
I guess I kind of have broad goals: happiness, health, passion, and winning.
Or is it a broader, remembered happiness, as in being able to look back and remember a time as happy?
The endgame for any capitalistic society should be "a broad level of happiness and well-being in its citizens". Happy, prosperous people spend money, and when they spend money, the capitalists prosper too.
With immigrants as people, as distinct with immigration as a shorthand for a broad sense of happiness with today's Britain, familiarity usually breeds content, not contempt.
When people are asked open-ended questions about what is important to their happiness, "broad societal matters such as inequality, pollution, political and civil liberties, international relations" — issues which most individuals have little ability to influence — are rarely mentioned.
The choice of the term "well-being" is important, because it's a bit more exacting than the big, broad idea of "happiness". Well-being in psych parlance can either be "psychological well-being"—which is measured using scales, in the same way that depression can be measured in the other direction.
