The countries highest on the ladder of life satisfaction are Denmark, Finland, and Norway.

Silence gives consent.

Silence gives consent.

But the other lesson of life that is rarely mastered is the art of fulfillment.

Many other countries including the United Kingdom are now following Bhutan s lead in surveying their citizenry about life satisfaction.

Now is no time for cynical complacency.

Markets, too, have fallen into a state of relative complacency.

The costs of complacency are not.

Cyprus has shattered this complacency.

How one combines quantity and quality in some index of life satisfaction is a matter of morals rather than economics, so it is not surprising that most economists stick to their quantitative measures of welfare.

But one party rule breeds complacency, corruption, and political sclerosis.

The marital partners by mutual consent dispose with their joint property.

Like the other Territories, however, St. Helena would like to have more say in managing its own affairs (A 58 23 (Part I), annex, para.

Rather than catalyzing constructive policy coordination, it has inadvertently encouraged complacency.

Silence is a sign of consent.

The present Convention shall be subject to ratification by signatory States and to formal confirmation by signatory regional integration organizations. It shall be open for accession by any State or regional integration organization which has not signed the Convention.

His most precious resource is his personal popularity, which a flavor of consent to his authoritarian regime.

That disjunction explains a lot about the cynicism and disaffection with politics that characterizes much of the world nowadays.

Complacency in a Leaderless World

Such times are dangerous for democracy, because they endanger popular consent to democratic governments.

We cannot place great confidence in such studies, because this kind of overall life satisfaction judgment may not reflect how much people really enjoy the way they spend their time.

Indeed, any Japanese who thinks that complacency is an option should look to Argentina.

Military life is different from civilian life.

The bottom line is that the costs of reform are affordable. The costs of complacency are not.

In contrast to French and British unhappiness with the treaty, Italy gained stability for the first time in the 18th century.

Those votes partly reflected displeasure with domestic policies, and partly disappointment with the way governments conduct European affairs.

This approach became a notable explanation of job satisfaction in light of evidence that job satisfaction tends to be stable over time and across careers and jobs.

The dominant note was one of complacency or even optimism.

MOSCOW A pox on both your houses may be an appropriate individual response to frustration with the political candidates on offer in an election.

Only such just growth can eventually be converted into high GNC Gross National Contentment, a truer index of economic well being.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.

We cannot be complacent about the challenges it confronts.

Two years ago, Russians could look at the world with satisfaction.

The 2002 2003 survey on people's satisfaction with the scheme reveals that 80 per cent of respondents were satisfied with the services at hospitals and only 68.6 per cent were satisfied with the quality of medicines.

I was like So, the idea that we create this false this sense of complacency when all we do is talk about somebody else's responsibility as though it's our own, and vice versa.

Making a coherent, well argued case is surely the best way in the long term of trying to mobilize consent for any course of action.

One hopes that the protests in India will inspire the West to emulate the protesters lack of complacency.

Complacency and politics gave the terrorists more protection than silence or camouflage ever could.

Lulled into complacency and excess by ample supplies of artificially cheap financing, Irish banks went on a lending binge.

Now, I'm from New York, so it's 100 percent satisfaction here.

Malaysia's trade and economic links with Africa have grown at a satisfactory rate.

Yet, it is not a time for complacency. On August 16, 2012, a high value military base right outside the capital Islamabad was attacked by gunmen.

Ben Dunlap talks about a passionate life

The meaning of life is a philosophical and spiritual question concerning the significance of living or existence in general.