Recently Cain wrote: "Happiness is something Emiratis take very seriously.
One of her women characters writes "Happiness is capability" and sticks it on her fridge, and there is a fridge-magnet tendency at times in Shields's work: a penchant for happy endings (which she can satirise in herself, too), for cutely punning titles, folksy parables and comforting adages.
William Butler Yeats wrote: "Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor thing thing nor that, but simply growth.
In Thrive, Arianna Huffington writes, "Happiness and well-being are not just magical traits that some are blessed with and others not".
Life goes on and then big things start happening... Julian [ Fellowes always says that it's hard to write happiness … People didn't see Matthew's death coming and I don't think they saw Sybil's coming either.
If, as Daniel Gilbert writes, happiness comes through "being effective -- changing things, influencing things, making things happen," and, as Csikszentmihalyi states, it occurs "when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile," then we need to take action.
Rubin turned her hobby into her job, writing The Happiness Project, on the a New York Times best-seller list for years.
"Your happiness," behavioral scientist Paul Dolan writes in "Happiness by Design," "is determined by how you allocate your attention….
Which leads on to Mr Brooks's most controversial finding: in America, conservatives are happier than liberals.Several books have been written about happiness in recent years.
"Revelation is marked by mystery," he wrote, "eternal happiness by suffering, the certitude of faith by uncertainty, easiness by difficulty, truth by absurdity".
Alan Powers, probably the greatest authority on the artist, has written that "happiness is a quality that is difficult to convey through design, but Ravilious consistently managed to generate it".
