The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.
Interpretation
Happiness is a universal pursuit, regardless of economic status.
This quote highlights the shared human experience of seeking happiness, illustrating that individuals from all walks of life, including the poor, experience boredom and desire joy. It emphasizes that happiness holds significant value to everyone, similar to their health, suggesting that emotional well-being is fundamental to the human experience.
In practice
In a discussion about mental health disparities in society.
And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do - if there's enough of it - is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.
In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy?
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy.
Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was active in a small NGO for the child victims of war.
And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!
Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim through your blood stream and tell funny jokes to each other. When they reach your brain,you hear what they're saying and that boosts your health and happiness. "Knock Knock... Who's There?.. Little endorphin... Little endorphin who?... Little Endorphin Annie." And then the endorphins laugh and then you laugh. See? Its Science.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
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