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    The person’s genetics and childhood or the person’s family and culture are things that influence a person’s happiness. Happiness is a mindset that is created by a person’s surroundings and their origins. Relationships are can be very important for a person’s happiness or may have in some ways thought to be important for happiness. One thing that is thought to make a person happy is marriage. Even though marriage has a great influence on a person’s life it doesn’t make them necessarily happy (Stein

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    I feel like if you have this you will be happy for the rest of your days. People find happiness in whatever, people have their own way of making themselves happy. You can find happiness in

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    Money vs. Happiness Is it possible for money to buy happiness in life? Is work worth every second that you cannot spend with family? People in today’s world must either make a choice between the two, money or happiness, or find a happy medium. Should lives be wasted on material items when there is much more to life, such as faith, love, family, and health? Faith brings people security and hope for the future, allowing happiness into people’s lives. “Faith takes strength, and it makes strength

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    “That Was the Night I learned that Money can Not Buy Happiness” Ten years ago. One night I meet my friends at a coffee shop which we spend our time there weekly. It was a high-class coffee shop and expensive. Most of people there were rich. My friends are rich, so they do not care about spending their money for anything because their parents will give them more. I am from Middle class family and I collect all my money for the week to spend it with them at the coffee shop in the weekend. When I

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    or smile on your faces. But not always sometimes too much money can cause you to have an unhappy life or to have a lonely life. But then again it's all up to the person because my definition of happiness could be different to your definition of happiness. In my opinion, money does not equal true happiness. You may think by having money that you could be happy. But sometimes money brings the direct opposite, for example in this story called “The Necklace” There was this lady who dreams of being a

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    There are many different ways material wealth can affect one's life. For some it gives a sense of comfort and for others, a sense of anxiety. Many will still choose to be wealthy, than to have nothing. The sense of comfort is a nice feeling to have. Not needing to worry whether or not you'll have enough money is a common wish people wish to have. In the poem The Good Life the author says “From a village without a well, then living/ One or two nights like everyone else/ On roast chicken

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    difference in happiness. With all of this in mind, the author also describes the two different types of happiness one being the changeable day to day mood this can be if you are feeling stressed or sad that day. There is also a deeper feeling that is described as the satisfaction that you feel about the way your life is going. The author states $75,000 a year is a “magic” number, however people who make above this magic number yearly do not necessarily have more day to day happiness

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    Spend Your Money Correctly In their article, “ If Money Doesn’t Make You Happy, Then You Probably Aren’t Spending It Right”, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Daniel T. Gilbert, and Timothy D. Wilson advise the reader’s on how to extend one’s happiness by explaining eight principles. The eight principles include: spending money on experiential purchases, spend money on others, buying small pleasurable materials at frequent times, finding the good in bad, delayed consumption, think about the details, do not engage

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    break. My goal for this paper is to provide you with evidence that happiness for us humans is a must. Humans wake up every day, some really happy, some really sad. The ones that wake up happy are probably looking forward for something that would make them happy, but even if you wake up sad, you will strive to look for something, even the tiniest bit of happiness you can find so being happy is always on everybody’s to-do list. Happiness isn’t a little thing at all, it’s just a powerful thing that last

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    seeking happiness. Everybody wants it, but it seems like nobody has it. Everywhere you go – at work, at home, in school, at the market, in church – you see people struggling; they exist but are not alive, like they are designed to be slightly dissatisfied with everything. Male and female, rich and poor, young and old, no one is free. Everyone is in a cloud of discontent. For all the things they do have, they’re always wanting something they don’t and can’t have… to be happy. As if happiness is an impossible

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