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In the 18th century, the Enlightenment ushered in the notion that happiness was the attainment of a worthy life. Since then the pursuit of happiness has spread to every aspect of behavior,...
Mar 27, 2021 · If we’re not careful, it can easily cause our present happiness to wither and die. So hey, take a break every once in a while. When ambition ends, happiness begins.
- Zane Fleming
Jun 23, 2017 · But in the Romantic era, love became all the opposite: a means of finding and validating oneself, of lending weight and texture and solidity to one’s life—as encapsulated by Sylvester’s...
Jun 27, 2016 · But his idea that happiness can be found in the surrender to visceral feelings of love rings true — and contemporary science seems to be on his side. "Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome" — Friedrich Nietzsche, alive in late-19th century.
Mar 9, 2015 · What then is the real predictor of happiness? The answer seems clear: Wholehearted and reciprocated love for a caring and lovable partner. Rational love leads to happiness. Irrational love does...
Love may well be one of the most studied, but least understood, behaviors. More than 20 years ago, the biological anthropologist Helen Fisher studied 166 societies and found evidence of romantic love—the kind that leaves one breathless and euphoric—in 147 of them.
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“Love is a recent invention, a mere few hundred years old,” some social scientists have argued. “Love is limited to Western cultures,” according to others. This chapter explains why all these beliefs are radically wrong.
