The Word Happiness Is Used To Indicate

Lower Your Cortisol Level. The Happiest People Have The Lowest Level Of Cortisol, A Stress Hormone That Raises Blood Pressure And Weakens The Immune System. Cut The Stress-more Yoga, Less Road Rage-and You'll Cut Your Cortisol Production.

Psychologists Call This Habituation, Economists Call It Declining Marginal Utility, And The Rest Of Us Call It Marriage.

Your Mistake Was Not In Imagining Things You Could Not Know—that Is, After All, What Imagination Is For. Rather, Your Mistake Was In Unthinkingly Treating What You Imagined As Though It Were An Accurate Representation Of The Facts.

We Humans Can Look Deep Into Future And Predict What Will Happen, But Then Turn Around And Do Nothing About It.

When We Have An Experience -- Hearing A Particular Sonata, Making Love With A Particular Person, Watching The Sun Set From A Particular Window Of A Particular Room -- On Successive Occasions, We Quickly Begin To Adapt To It, And The Experience Yields Less Pleasure Each Time. Psychologists Call This Habituation, Economists Call It Declining Marginal Utility, And The Rest Of Us Call It Marriage