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Lottery Winners – Are They Happy?

Can a Lottery Win Buy Happiness? – as part of the news series by GeoBeats. What would you do if you won a lottery? That was a common question in stores, bars, and homes across America during the $650 million lottery frenzy. A lottery has a universal appeal because it seems to be the easiest way to achieve our dreams – winning promises unlimited freedom and happiness ever after. But many research studies and interviews with past lottery winners presents a decidedly mixed picture. Certainly, there are many benefits – you can help family with loans, buy homes, cars, go on vacations but a research study done by Emory University suggests that people get less satisfaction out of the rewards they haven’t worked for. Then there are the additional issues that lottery winners face like lawsuit threats, relatives asking for money and predators. In a CNN report, a state lottery winner, who did not want to be identified remarked “Sometimes I wish I could change my name and go somewhere and hide,” A fascinating 1978 study by Northwestern and University of Massachusetts, as reported by The New Republic, reveals that winners just get used to more money after a while and what’s particularly interesting is that they enjoy routine activities like watching tv and talking to people less than the non-winners. A Wall Street Journal article notes that a University of California study found that lottery winners had higher happiness levels immediately after but then reverted to their pre-win …

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www.behappyquotes.org Be Happy Quotes To Lighten your day My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate. -Thornton Wilder The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. -Author Unknown If you want to be happy, be. -Leo Tolstoy Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Joseph Addison Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. -Palmer Sondreal The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. -James Openheim Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. -Abraham Lincoln We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. -Frederick Keonig Happiness is a direction, not a place. -Sydney J. Harris A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. -Unknown If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. -Dalai Lama We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. -Walter Savage Landor Joy is a flower that blooms when you do. -Unknown Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. -Gretta Brooker Palmer A man’s as miserable as he thinks …

Alfred Hitchcock defines his idea of happiness. These are words that I live by.

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How to Get What You Want Faster

The quickest and most fun way to get what you desire, beyond Law of Attraction. A Course in Miracles perspective on living the life you want.

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Inequality, Consumption, & Happiness

Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co From the IHS Vault: How well-off are we? Using economic data, economics professor Steve Horwitz addresses questions about inequality, consumption, happiness, and well-being. Are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? Is there income mobility in the United States? Are Americans happy? Are we “objectively” better off than we used to be? This lecture was taped in 2010 at the IHS summer seminar, “Morality, Capitalism, & Freedom” at Wake Forest University. Watch more videos: lrnlbty.co