"The Greatest Happiness," reads one such missive, "is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters".
I can derive happiness from reading guidebooks and Web sites in search of new places to discover, all within an hour or so from home.
In a recent email to the Palm Beach Post, she described her last few weeks and how she keeps up her sense of happiness by reading each day a passage about joy from Kahlil Gibran's famous book of prose poetry, The Prophet.
67c1042b-c828-4456-a581-43e20688e6e6 Familiarize yourself with the concept of sustainable happiness through reading articles on the topic and completing various activities that help you to understand its relevance to your life, both personally and professionally.
In the first one Mr. Ortega, in heavy glasses beside a black-and-white sign, reading "The Happiness Show," sits in front of the camera and reads from a script.
Hsieh has been on a nation-wide bus tour promoting new book, 'Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose,' with a team of over ten happiness agents (read our review of the book here).
During their fleeting moments of happiness, Colin reads Chloé the Tristan story, so you can add "L'Écume" to the list of works that quote from Wagner's opera.
In the nineties, Oprah was encouraging her viewers to put themselves first, consider their "spirit" — she had to teach them, first, about the possibility of a secular spirit — elevate their own happiness, and read challenging books.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," it read.
