Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigExact(7)
Feeling unworthy of happiness, worrying about how others will perceive you if you're happy, and worrying about the potential awfulness when happiness ends are all negative thinking patterns that can undermine the pursuit of joy in your life.
The major theme is that obsessing about our personal happiness ends up having the opposite effect.
"So the pursuit of happiness ends here?" I asked the salesman, who was using a hand-held massager on his own shoulders.
But the humor and the insights never flag, and eventually things get back on track, so that "The Pursuit of Happiness" ends up as a very satisfying theatrical outing.
("Tess in Britneyesque eyebrow disaster after Angel dumps her" "Frock horror as Dorothea Brooke's Honeymoon Happiness Ends in Tears") That might at least be a sour balm for the chick lit readers driven to body dysmorphia by thin heroines), but it's not engaging the mind or the soul as holy literature is supposed to.
Frustration and communication challenges frequently boil over during stressful times, and what often begins with sunshine and happiness ends up on a boulevard of broken dreams.
Similar(53)
In their article "Can Seeking Happiness Make People Happy?" Mauss and colleagues contend that people who highly value happiness end up setting happiness standards that are difficult to achieve.
Her happiness ended in tragedy when Tennant was killed in a car crash in 1967.
Its 16 years of great happiness ended when David died in 1986, aged 99.
To have so much hope and happiness end in an instant must have caused her immeasurable pain, something I couldn't fathom.
Yates's title also takes us back to the 18th century, implying that in Frank (whose full name Franklin evokes the Founding Fathers) and April (Eliot's cruellest month) we see the search for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ending with the corruption of the American Dream.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com