Happiness Quotes by Sissela Bok

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Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of shorter periods such as moments, days, or years? And to what extent are virtue and happiness linked?

Happiness

Thinking

Years

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Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

Happiness

Misery

Ongoing

Sissela Bok

Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength, good health, beauty, and sound senses; and external goods, such as wealth, friends, good birth, good children, good heredity, good reputation and the like.

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Happiness

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Air

America

Atmosphere

Believe

Breathing Space

Childhood

Children

Communication

Community

Confused

Deceit

Deceiving

Deception

Doe

Epidemics

Essentials

Fire

Foundation

Giving

Government

Growth

Happiness

Home

Hype

Indispensable

Integrity

Joining In

Liars

Long

Lying

Matter

May

Misery

Movement

Ongoing

Opportunity

Party

Practice

Principles

Realizing

Resources

Risk

Running

Secrecy

Self

Sitting

Soul

Thinking

Thrive

Truth

Two

Water

Years

Happiness Quotes by Sissela Bok

Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of shorter periods such as moments, days, or years? And to what extent are virtue and happiness linked?

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

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