However, they're much happier where they are... than living in this world of uncertainty.

Gross Domestic Wellbeing

And happiness, of course, is such a vague word, so let's say well being.

Sometimes unbelievably happy.

To the top right of the graph, are countries which are doing reasonably well and producing well being, but they're using a lot of planet to get there.

Tonight... tonight I feel gloriously happy, and I want you to feel happy too.

The overall security situation in Liberia remained calm but fragile during the reporting period.

Let's indulge in this infinite elation

It has a smaller welfare state.

And one of the key points in the science of happiness is that happiness and unhappiness are not endpoints of a single continuum.

Can We Increase Gross National Happiness?

Because of their overall greater total work contribution women have less free time than men.

Eve Ensler happiness in body and soul

Emi looks happy.

Stated briefly, the divergence is physical men tend to die earlier and women later, but with more ailments.

Youngsters nowadays are more fortunate as they had everything at birth.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

I am fortunate compared with him.

People in the United States, for example, are, on average, richer than New Zealanders, but they are not happier. More dramatically, people in Austria, France, Japan, and Germany appear to be no happier than people in much poorer countries, like Brazil, Colombia, and the Philippines.

They are lucky. They already have a job.

Are we happy? Very happy.

This great happiness will one day be yours too.

Cognitive researcher Nancy Etcoff looks at happiness the ways we try to achieve and increase it, the way it's untethered to our real circumstances, and its surprising effect on our bodies.

Community welfare centres (ICBF).

You know it's more blessed to give than to receive.

You can ask, how do you stack up for positive emotion, for meaning, for flow, against literally tens of thousands of other people?

All the happiness in the world.

The overall security situation in Liberia remained calm, but fragile.

Man wishes to be happy, only wishes to be happy, and cannot wish not to be so.

This girl is always smiling, but she's not happy.

Past tragedies have shown that the world's attention span is, unfortunately, relatively short.

This type of organization may come to pass in some happier period of our regeneration .

Just one little bit of happiness and joy after another.

This reflected an overall increase of 8 per cent compared to 27.7 million in 2003.

Fortunately, most developed countries and an increasing number of developing countries recognize the importance of collecting data on wellbeing. Add to that the parameters for measurement set by the OECD, and international comparisons of wellbeing become possible.

I woke this morning with such a sense of happiness that it spread like sunlight over all the hours of the day.

And when I touch you, I feel happy inside.

Those of the right hand how (happy) will be those of the right hand!

As for those of the right hand how (happy) those of the right hand

So those on the right how (fortunate) are those on the right!

And those on the right how (fortunate) are those on the right!

Companions of the Right (O Companions of the Right!)

The Companions of the Right (O Companions of the Right!)

Those on the right hand how happy shall those on the right hand be!

And the fellows on the right hand how be happy shall the fellows on the right hand be!