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    Happiness. Is it really as elusive as some might say? Are the problems of the world, or even just the ones in your own life, enough to steal your happiness and joy? I don't think so. Happy is a choice you make every moment and in every circumstance. You can choose to be miserable and depressed, or you can choose to look at life from a 'glass half-full' perspective. The nice thing about a glass that's only half full is there's still room for more! You've got enough, and that's great; but what else

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    The Meaning Of Life Essay

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    Draft The Meaning of Life In the world we live money, interest and pleasure are words more powerful than happiness. Not that they are not providing happiness but seems to be the only way to find a happy life. By happiness people these day mean success, joy in success. When asking people what they want in their life to be happy the majority respond “a lot of money”. The fact that those words take such important place in our lives makes a massive change in our society and our civilization around the world

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    When people go through their lives, happiness and the joy is what gets everyone through their daily lives. When you’re not feeling well, and you take a bubble bath that makes you calm, or you’re lonely, and one of your friends offers to take you to dinner, it makes you feel better. People want and need happiness in their lives, and everyone can achieve it, if they focus on a few important things. There have been studies done about how happiness is linked to and can be affected by income and how you

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    In the article YOU CAN BUY HAPPINESS, IF IT'S AN EXPERIENCE it states,” And as people age, they tend to find more joy in ordinary, everyday experiences like walking or gardening, compared to that trip to Fiji, another recent study found.” People experience joy from experience. For example, you might enjoy a view when you are on vacation. If you take a picture of that, you can always come back to look at the picture. This way, people might

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    Balloony Rooney’s Happiness Investigation This is Balloony Rooney. Balloony Rooney isn’t like other balloons. Unlike the other balloons, Balloony Rooney has a variety of emotions. Sometimes she feels deflated, as if the air has been sucked out of her. Other times she’s extremely cheerful and feels, as if she can freely float around without the fear of getting popped. Balloony Rooney also thinks for herself which is absurd where she is from. Where Balloony Rooney lives, everyone is always happy

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    Everyone in life has their own perspective of happiness, everyone has their own struggles and obstacles that they go through . Individually, happiness does not include materialistic items because they only last for the moment. Happiness is when you are content with yourself within and do not care about others judging you for you. People in our society often think that having the finer things in life and changing their appearance will help them cope with the flaws inside of themselves. Instead of

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    spouse isn’t going to make you happy, a big house is not going to make you happy, own your own happiness and be responsible for doing those things that bring joy into your own heart, Independently of life, money and all of the materialistic things that don’t necessarily give you happiness. You have to take responsibility of that peace and that joy that lives inside of your heart not inside of your stuff. There’s so many ways you can control your happiness

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    buy some pants, and socks and not worry about not having enough money to eat for the next two weeks. Happiness is making a stranger smile; filling their empty bellies. Happiness for me is relief; a weight falling off my shoulders letting content and joy flow in through my body. Little things make me happy; the cigarette after a long shift at work, the full night of sleep, a shower after a fifteen hour day. My lowest point was when I was homeless; I had just started my job and gotten out of an abusive

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    Additionally, the goal posts shift, and new expectations realize, the events could wear down an individual creating a state of loneliness. In my option, money cannot buy happiness, and beyond a certain level of income, money stop being an interpreter of joy and the overall well-being. Money can also get an equation to hygiene factor after basic financial needs get

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    I believe would enable me to lead a happy life, thus the reason why I’m extremely saddened by thought of not achieving one of my goals. Being a single parent, of two children I believe that their success in the future would make my life happy. The joy I feel is overwhelming whenever I see them doing well in their studies and other activities they engage. For this reason, I believe that their success in the future will make my life happy as well as theirs. I am fully committed in ensuring that they

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