Doing the right thing, after we exhaust the alternatives
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March 7, 2007
Happiness is
Salim Hossen Gaus feels that things are getting a bit crowded in Bangladesh. Traveling horizontally over the Indian subcontinent to get away from the milling crowd isn't easy. Salim decides to go vertical.
Being a carpenter by trade, he builds a platform at the top of a palm tree. Rigs a pulley to use as an elevator. And that's where Salim finds happiness each day, reading, taking naps and listening to birds chirping.
So, what is happiness for the rest of us? Let's take a small poll. Happiness is...
... nothing more than good health and a bad memory. - Albert Schweitzer
... something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. - Allan Chalmers
...being self sufficient. - Aristotle
...action. - Disraeli
...being of benefit to others and yourself. - Buddha
...nature. - Monet
... achievement and creative effort. - Franklin Roosevelt
...love and kindness toward others. - Dalai Lama
...wisdom. - Sophocles
...independence. - Susan Anthony
...family. - Thomas Jefferson
...attitude. - Hugh Downs
... a thing to be practiced, like the violin. - John Lubbock
...what you get as a by-product of making something else. - Aldous Huxley
...holding the bucket of popcorn at the movies with your kids leaning on you from both sides. - Thomas Kyte
... a moral obligation. - Dennis Prager
... not worrying much about whether life is fair. - Andew Matthews
courtesy of Hugh Macleod at Gapingvoid
... a warm puppy. - Charles Schulz
... giving to others. - Eleanor Roosevelt
... recognizing and appreciating what we have. - Frederick Koenig
... counting the joyful things. - Dostoyevsky
... a positive cash flow. - Fredrick Adler
... submission to God. - Islamic text
... to be attained not in this life, but in the next. - Catholic Encyclopedia
...electrical activity in the left front part of the brain. - Johan Norberg
... living by the harmless truths that make you brave, kind and healthy. - Vonnegut
... avoiding battles. - Norman Vincent Peale
... an emotional or affective state.... - wiki
...using the brain the right way. - Daniel H. Pink
... faith, friends, family and gratitude. - Time magazine
... a journey, not a destination. - Father Alfred D'Souza
... is the only moral purpose of your life...and is proof of your moral integrity. - Ayn Rand
...freedom. - Thucydides
... a stochastic phenomenon. - University of Minnesota Department of Psychology
... a learned skill. - Matthieu Ricard
... creating friendships and beauty. - Charles Hugh Smith
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