Relationships

• Loneliness is as much of a health risk as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, heavy alcohol use, high blood pressure, and obesity. 
• Divorce. Some studies show that a good marriage is health-protective. It's not just about being kind. It involves learning to navigate conflict.

The Happiness Pie Chart, first published in 2005, states that 50% of our happiness is defined by our genes, 40% by our activities and 10% by our life circumstances.

Recent studies on what determines happiness prove that it is possible to take deliberate steps to control our happines...

Dynamic quality cannot be defined. It can only be understood intellectually through the use of analogy.

When an aspect of Quality becomes repeated, it becomes static. Pirsig defines 'Static quality' patterns as everything which can be defined. 

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