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.
Or is it a broader, remembered happiness, as in being able to look back and remember a time as happy?
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.
DACHER KELTNER What would you give from this science, from this cultural wisdom, to our broader understanding of happiness?
But Hughes insists that he was trying to make a broader point, that happiness is not entirely dependent on N.B.A. titles.
It's common sense, backed up by research: images of strong emotions were significantly, specifically and repeatedly evoked in the viewer, and in the broader sense, both happiness and sadness have been shown to circulate through social networks in a manner similar to disease.
When a country focuses primarily on just one aspect of wellbeing, that tends to have a harmful effect on people's broader sense of happiness.
