Excessively loud purring means over-excessive happiness, which can sometimes switch quickly to annoyance, so be careful.
Neither in grief nor in joy should one be excessive, for unregulated happiness can be as harmful as uncontrolled sorrow.
Excessive preoccupation with happiness can actually lead to an unhealthy attitude towards negative emotions and experiences.
Socially educating people not to seek happiness through excessive consumption will be a huge and possibly doomed undertaking, however many times it is shown that it can't buy you happiness.
If we had a social stigma against excessive work, this woman's happiness would certainly increase.
John adds the usual caveats: one must not value them beyond their utility in enabling or promoting good acts and happiness, or seek them in immoral or excessive ways.
Her popping eyes don't seem excessive when she plays someone grasping at a moment of happiness.
Lagerback, not usually a man for excessive talk, described the win over England as a huge happiness.
A new commentary in the populist newspaper Global Times addresses the criticisms over "excessive" patriotism: The London Olympic Games has resulted in new happiness and confidence for Chinese society.
Having retired with his companions to the shores of the Propontis, he discovered that the secret of happiness was "to cultivate one's garden," a practical philosophy excluding excessive idealism and nebulous metaphysics.
