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Careful cultivation pays off… employers who nurture, praise, and when necessary, discipline fairly, experience happier and more successful lives for themselves and those in their charge.
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There are those who appear successful on the surface, but who in reality are selfish, unhappy individuals lacking the motivation and capacity to love.
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There is no source of true happiness more complete than an act of charity. It is what life is all about.
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You can change what you think about or how you behave, but you can’t force yourself to be happy.
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Tell people ‘you’re right’ and they get a happy smile on their face and leave you alone for at least twenty-four hours. But you haven’t agreed to their position.
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It’s an open debate how much education can boost innate aptitude or IQ, but the trait of ‘conscientiousness’ does consistently predict education and job success and also subjective happiness.
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…the common assumption that ‘employees will never be happy with their pay’ is fallacious.
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When employees are unhappy in their current situation, it’s fortunate when they also feel able to leave it.
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Lasting happiness is obtainable only by avoiding the ultimate promotion, by choosing, at a certain point in one’s progress, to abandon one-upmanship…
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No, refusing promotion is no easy route to happiness and health.
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