"Well, forgive me, all of you, if it's not so easy for me to recognize happiness," Bitte said.
Aristotle, following Plato, thought that music has power to mold human character, but he would admit all the modes, recognizing happiness and pleasure as values to both the individual and the state.
Its characters demonstrate all too well the human inability to recognize happiness and revel in it while it's here, rather than looking back at it longingly from tomorrow.
Reading Andrew Motion's lucid, brilliant, melancholic poetry collection The Customs House I was reminded of Edward Thomas's moodily captivating essay "One Green Field' in which Thomas realises how "Happiness is not to be pursued, though pleasure may be; but I have long thought that I should recognize happiness could I ever achieve it..
I have to recognize happiness in the exposure I have, and what I am able to do.
Unfortunately we complicate our lives to the point of being unable to recognize happiness when it appears before our eyes.
But we recognize happiness when we see it, and we seek it more ardently than any other goal.
As a result, training people to be biased to recognize happiness instead of anger in a facial expression can help to lower their own feelings of anger and aggression.
His expertise and passion helped him recognize the happiness in the happy accident.
"Peace and love to you, and may you recognize the happiness we have experienced today," his daughter said.
Her reflective version of "A Quiet Thing," from "Flora the Red Menace," made you ponder the lyrics about recognizing unexpected happiness.
