Therein lies real happiness.
I find it easier to relate to meaningfulness, which seems less ephemeral, more robust and more substantial than happiness.
I can't deny that Hershey's Kisses were a substantial source of happiness in my childhood.
The bars of the turnstile read, alternately, "Hello, Happy" and "Hello, Hershey's". I can't deny that Hershey's Kisses were a substantial source of happiness in my childhood.
These points may seem to vitiate any substantial role for happiness in ethical thought.
The answer to that question is one that many in the care community (myself included) are working hard to change, because the outcome inevitably involves emotional burn out, increased health problems, and a substantial erosion of happiness, pleasure, and social connection.
Is Too Much Happiness as substantial a collection as Runaway (2004) or Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)?
Similarly, although suboptimal therapies may not individually be much worse than best practice, the overall effect on a nation's health, wealth and happiness is substantial.
Moving from a high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhood spurs long-term gains in the physical and mental health of low-income adults, as well as a substantial increase in their happiness, despite not improving economic self-sufficiency, according to a new study published in the Sept. 20 issue of Science by researchers at the University of Chicago and partners at other institutions.
Perhaps hosting the NFL could have a substantial impact on the happiness of Los Angeles.
Importantly, most scientific research needs only to discern patterns across large numbers of individuals to take an easy case, determining whether widows tend to be less happy than newlyweds and this is compatible with substantial unreliability in assessing individual happiness.
