英语翻译1.happiness is considered very important in life 2.why is it difficult to define?3.what factors are important in achieving happiness

英语翻译1.happiness is considered very important in life 2.why is it difficult to define?3.what factors are important in achieving happiness
英语翻译
1.happiness is considered very important in life
2.why is it difficult to define?
3.what factors are important in achieving happiness

英语翻译1.happiness is considered very important in life 2.why is it difficult to define?3.what factors are important in achieving happiness
Happiness
Happiness is an emotion.So is sadness,love,hate,curiosity,revulsion,excitement,jealousy,contentment,depression,anxiety,fear,guilt and anger.All emotions have causes,causes which can be understood and controlled.
The emotion of happiness is not caused simply by entertaining your whims.(Whims are an obstacle to happiness.) Happiness is not merely a life lived by accumulating moments of pleasure.On the contrary,happiness is a long lasting enduring enjoyment of life,it is being in love with living.It is your reward for achieving a good character and personal rational values in life.Some important values are a productive career,romance,friendship and hobbies.
Achieving these values requires rationality and takes effort and skill.Two types of skills you can use are thinking skills and valuing skills.
Once you learn to have confidence in your own mind and once you discover the virtues that make it possible for you to achieve your values and that make your life worth living,then you will experience the result - an earned pride and a genuine self-esteem.And of course happiness.
For more information on achieving happiness through rationality,follow the links on this page.If you feel you need professional help,go to "How to Choose a Therapist".You can also ask Dr.Kenner a question,listen to her radio show,and view her Recommended reading list.

It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it unwisely. Gamblers at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it inst...

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It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it unwisely. Gamblers at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other ways of pursuing money, which often succeed. So it is with happiness. If you pursue it by means of drink, you are forgetting the hang-over. Epicurus pursued it by living only in congenial society and eating only dry bread, supplemented by a little cheese on feast days. His method proved successful in his case, but he was a valetudinarian, and most people would need something more vigorous. For most people, the pursuit of happiness, unless supplemented in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be adequate as a personal rule of life. But I think that whatever personal rule of life you may choose it should not, except in rare and heroic cases, be incompatible with happiness.

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