Contentment

their face but other’s faces as well. All individuals find this happiness through different activities, pastimes, and people. The definition of happiness is different for all, therefore scientists have determined it to be, in concept, a feeling of contentment. True happiness starts with an individual 's mindset. So how does negative thinking lead to unhappiness instead of joy in life? To be a happy thinker, optimism is needed. When keeping a negative mindset you will find that your life is more…

due to the constraint of time is like falling leaves flowing nonstop by the influence of the wind. Just as a clock goes around and around we fall into that spinning circle running the risk of the days running into each other without reaching the contentment of life. We drift off from the world blighted to find enlightenment. That soothing feeling that grows within you when you become a person who spends their days in seclusion evokes you to inhale confidence and exhale the doubt. It is one of…

The selection is entitled A Season of Divorce written by John Cheever. The short story had a dramatic storyline which includes a love triangle. According to Amber Pauleen, a writer and copyeditor, the author was inspired to write this story when his wife refused to dance with him and drove him to jealousy. Likewise, he loves and understands domesticity but he often criticizes his wife when she works out of the house. The purpose of this paper is to identify the persona, the character that caught…

garden, where one is content with the absence of others. With happiness the ultimate goal, or the top of the ladder, loneliness is a step down, while solitude is a step up, leading to contentment and eventually happiness. Solitude is much preferable to loneliness, because it does not induce sadness, but instead contentment, and ultimately happiness. Throughout Barbara…

buying her children gifts and keeping the house clean and pretty, just the way Torvald likes it. But she also rebels and lies as a little child would by buying and eating macaroons despite Torvald banning them. All of these give her a false sense of contentment in her situation. However, Nora is still caged within her house and craves a sense of responsibility like a proper adult. Through deceit, Nora is able to achieve this by borrowing money to save Torvald’s life while still keeping her…

Morality and happiness are closely intertwined in the ethical theories of a handful of philosophers. Such can be seen in the philosophies of Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and Friedrich Nietzsche. These three philosophers address the relationship held between the “good” and “happy.” Kant begins his analysis of the relationship between “good” and “happy” by discussing the Good Will. It is through this constitution that a man can be seen as worthy of happiness. The implementation of the good…

criminal who is very intelligent may deceive others so that they can get away with some sort of evil act. Next, Kante says that gifts of fortune can also be something considered as both good and bad. He uses the example of contentment with one’s self or happiness. Contentment…

Huemer devises the mere addition argument to support Parfit’s repugnant conclusion, but this is not effective in practice because it presupposes important considerations for the argument to work. The mere addition argument relies on the prior belief that world A+ is superior to world A in virtue of total happiness, even though more reliable measurements prove otherwise. Huemer also uses subjective comparisons to justify the superiority of A+, so it is not able to provide a reliable measurement.…

define the abstract concept, life. When people think of life they define it as all that is living, life has a heartbeat or it breathes like plants. Although they aren’t wrong, life is much more than a pulse and breathing, life is stressful, life is contentment, life is composed of small moments and most important life is creating new elements to serve a purpose. Life is stressful, which means that when a human being feels too overwhelmed they feel or get…

Ifemelu settles for contentment in a relationship for a period of time till she sabotages the relationship herself in an attempt to find something more while Aunty Uju entered clearly unhealthy relationships, like those with Bartholomew and The General, to follow her culture,…