This session is on natural wonders, and the bigger conference is on the pursuit of happiness.

It turns out the pursuit of pleasure has almost no contribution to life satisfaction.

Or happiness Striving toward happiness moving toward unhappiness.

life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.

I call it seeking joy this pursuit of happiness.

I call it seeking joy, this pursuit of happiness.

Food shaping body, brains and environment, which I think is pretty good.

So we ask and we've done this in 15 replications involving thousands of people to what extent does the pursuit of pleasure, the pursuit of positive emotion, the pleasant life, the pursuit of engagement, time stopping for you, and the pursuit of meaning contribute to life satisfaction?

My first point is that the pursuit of happiness is obligatory.

She spent her life in pursuit of the truth.

Imagine a world where you could follow your passions

All who gathered in Thimphu agreed on the importance of pursuing happiness rather than pursuing national income.

We are wired to pursue happiness, not only to enjoy it, but to want more and more of it.

His vocation and avocation are one and the same. The pursuit of beautiful women.

We feel that the only thing is to go on and getting more and more.

But I came here to hunt whales, not my commander's vengeance.

The reality is, in Western countries, quite often we do focus on the pursuit of happiness as if happiness is something that we have to go out an object that we're supposed to get, or maybe many objects.

So we ask and we've done this in 15 replications involving thousands of people to what extent does the pursuit of pleasure, the pursuit of positive emotion, the pleasant life, the pursuit of engagement, time stopping for you, and the pursuit of meaning contribute to life satisfaction?

If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.

Well, it's because, as Adam Smith pointed out in The Wealth of Nations, it was the pursuit of wealth, it was the pursuit of these surpluses, that begin the process of pulling the parts of the world together into a more interconnected system or subsystems all interrelating with themselves.

Europe seemed like the only place I could go after them.

This can never be accomplished in a monetary system, for the pursuit of profit is the pursuit of self interest and therefore imbalance is inherent.

In part, we have the legacy of Freud, who was a pessimist, who said that pursuit of happiness is a doomed quest, is propelled by infantile aspects of the individual that can never be met in reality.

Today, companies are relentless in pursuing new technologies, new product markets and new economies.

Yet Hong Kong style capitalism is not founded simply on the pursuit of material gain.

Kabila is barred by the constitution from seeking a third term, however his term would be automatically prolonged until the census is completed.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.

So I do a lot of my work outside Brisbane and outside Australia, and so the pursuit of this crazy passion of mine has enabled me to see so many amazing places in the world.

The reality is, in Western countries, quite often we do focus on the pursuit of happiness as if happiness is something that we have to go out an object that we're supposed to get, or maybe many objects.

Should she take up an important role at this stage? Or should she pursue happiness as a woman?

The quest for prosperity could be a danger, since it engenders a strong migratory flow from the South to the North.

50s, 60s, the mode of operation shifts more to the quest for wisdom and a search for legacy.

It's the society the media especially that puts ordinary people into this vain search of material goodies.

Last July, the UN General Assembly passed, without dissent, a Bhutanese initiated resolution recognizing the pursuit of happiness as a fundamental human goal and noting that this goal is not reflected in GDP.

The last thing I want to talk about, apropos of the issue of the pursuit of happiness, is that study after study have shown that people who are lonely and depressed and depression is the other real epidemic in our culture are many times more likely to get sick and die prematurely, in part because, as we talked about, they're more likely to smoke and overeat and drink too much and work too hard and so on.

There was once a statement made by a psychologist that said that 80 percent of the pursuit of happiness is really just about the genes, and it's as difficult to become happier as it is to become taller.

It is hardly surprising, then, that Chinese officials have begun to seek more diverse and profitable investment possibilities worldwide.

However, she would like to hear more about the underlying reasons for their failure to seek election in the first place.

You shall have happiness, and only happiness. I promise you that if you take heart for it,

quot ... that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness ... quot .

The soul and heritage of science going back several centuries is far richer than the quest for prizes.

The wagon rattled, jumped, almost flew, over the frozen ground but plainer, and still plainer, came the noise of pursuing horsemen behind.

Happiness, yes.

Relax ezvous.

Pleasure.