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They even confirmed their
happiness
that the struggles for freedom of "the Vietnamese and Cambodian peoples have been crowned with victory."
“If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance, there would be no limit to the happiness, to the prosperity and glory which its three or four hundred million people would enjoy.”
As the Arab proverb puts it, patience is the key to
happiness.
At that fluid border between old and new people craved most what they had never had: freedom of thought and expression, information, the tools to debate and define their own
happiness.
As the religious terrorists of September 11, 2001, proved, the human story and mankind’s history go on, as before, through ideas and conflicts, through projects of absolute happiness, through cruelty and disasters, revolutions and revivals.
The first is that growth reduces inequality and increases
happiness.
They concluded that mental health would be the cheapest of the four options: around 18 times more cost-effective in reducing misery and promoting
happiness
than targeting poverty.
Since
happiness
is ultimately what people want the most, while wealth is only a means to that end, the primacy now accorded to economic growth would appear to be a mistake.
It is hazardous, therefore, for politicians simply to rely on opinion polls and focus groups to discover what will truly enhance people’s
happiness.
The natural response to all this is to ask whether
happiness
research is really reliable enough to be used by policymakers.
So, overall, statistics about
happiness
seem to be as accurate as many of the statistics regularly used by politicians, such as public-opinion polls, poverty rates, or, for that matter, GDP growth – all of which are riddled with imperfections.
Of course,
happiness
research is still new.
Thus, it would be premature to base bold new policies on
happiness
research alone, or to follow the example of tiny Bhutan by adopting Gross National
Happiness
as the nation’s principal goal.
Further research will doubtless provide more detailed and reliable information about the kinds of policies that add to people’s
happiness.
After all, what could matter more to their constituents than
happiness?
Analysts could easily categorize companies and tell the markets what they were worth, boards could oversee firms with a view to shareholders’ happiness, and all was right in the world.
Happiness
by DesignLONDON – Over the last few years, thinking on
happiness
has undergone a sea change.
Until recently, it seemed sensible to assume that our
happiness
was determined by factors such as luck, fate, or genes that are beyond our control.
But new discoveries point to fresh ways of thinking about happiness, as something over which we do have control and that can be taught.
Whole societies can also try to improve their
happiness.
British Prime Minister David Cameron introduced the measurement of
happiness
into national statistics, and more recently German Chancellor Angela Merkel launched a program to promote citizen’s wellbeing.
How countries are governed has a huge impact on
happiness.
Overall, education has surprisingly little clear impact on
happiness
(perhaps because expectations often rise faster than the possibility of meeting them).
For the elderly, remaining active is a clear source of happiness, whether that means exercising, volunteering, or engaging in paid employment.
And there are suggestive indications that urban planning can influence happiness, especially when it reduces the time spent commuting or alleviates worries about crime.
Building
happiness
is, after all, the primary business of good government everywhere.
But the motivation for this art is common to every culture: imagine a talented host from any country whose manner is so easy that guests are wrapped in a mood of quiet
happiness.
Government, in short, should nurture an environment in which people create and enjoy their own
happiness.
We are not new to this talk about the government’s role in promoting
happiness.
Since the dawn of history,
happiness
is all that humanity has sought.
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