“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 5:3-4 (ESV)
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 5:3-4 (ESV)
From Joshua Wolf Shenk in The Atlantic Online: "What Makes Us Happy?"
....[W]hat does it mean, really, to be happier? For 30 years, Denmark has topped international happiness surveys. But Danes are hardly a sanguine bunch. Ask an American how it’s going, and you will usually hear “Really good.” Ask a Dane, and you will hear “Det kunne være værre (It could be worse).” “Danes have consistently low (and indubitably realistic) expectations for the year to come,” a team of Danish scholars concluded. “Year after year they are pleasantly surprised to find that not everything is getting more rotten in the state of Denmark.”
"You know, these are yuppie words, happiness and unhappiness. It's not happiness or unhappiness, it's either blessed or unblessed." Bob Dylan, Rolling Stone, 1991
The Atlantic Online | June 2009 | What Makes Us Happy? | Joshua Wolf Shenk
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