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..
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.
Her reflective version of "A Quiet Thing," from "Flora the Red Menace," made you ponder the lyrics about recognizing unexpected happiness.
Such analysis invariably entails recognizing the happiness of "each and all, as the end to be achieved by fulfillment of these conditions" (Spencer, vol. I, 1978: 204).
"Peace and love to you, and may you recognize the happiness we have experienced today," his daughter said.
In this paper, the authors proposed a method using Random Forest classifier to recognize daily happiness of person which obtained from the mobile phone usage data (call log, SMS, and Bluetooth proximity data), and background noise.
Yet, if you have done any spiritual work at all, you will probably recognize that happiness is something that should be derived from within.
