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Nicomachean Ethics was a book made by Aristotle around the 350 BC. Is Aristotle’s best known book on Ethics, centering the question on how to best live. This book is a part of humanities’ philosophy discipline. -
Poetics was one of aristotle’s final works written in 330 BCE. It’s believed to have been written as lecture notes. -
De Baeta Vita was a book made by Saint Augustine around 386 AD. It is a book focusing mainly on happiness. -
A midsummer night’s dream, by William Shakespeare, is a comedic play set in Athens and an enchanted forest. -
The Civilization of The Renaissance in Italy is a classic work exploring Renaissance ideas of: earthly joy and pleasure, individualism, fulfillment, and humanist notions of happiness. It is a part of the Humanities discipline of history. -
Vincent Van Gogh created this still-life painting of a bouquet of Sunflower starting 1888-1889. His first series of sunflower paintings were of sunflowers on the ground (he was influenced by Japanese woodblock prints to make the first one.) -
The joy of life (known usually by its French name) is a painting by Henri Matisse seemingly depicting a joyful forest with people and a pond. -
Anne of Green Gables, by L.M Montgomery, is a very joyful reading of the protagonist and her appreciation for Life’s small details. -
Lobster Telephone is a surrealist art piece (Sculpture) by Salvador Dalí of a telephone with a lobster on it. The lobster telephone is a part of the art history discipline of humanities. -
Beautiful Christmas fantasy drama that with a heartwarming message about the value of life, directed by Frank Capra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFXoAVi4FPk -
A few seconds before happiness is a photograph where by Édouard Boubat. It’s a photo of a man (presumably the father) holding a puppy behind his back ready to gift his child the gift. The child waits, unknowing of the jolly joys he will experience in seconds. -
What a wonderful world is a song created by Luis Armstrong in 1967. It was written to provide a message of hope during national turmoil. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rBrd_3VMC3c -
For good luck is a Christmas painting by Salvador Dalí which was a Christmas gift to the Lucas family. It depicts an angel in his surreal landscape. -
The laurels of happiness is a surreal painting by Salvador Dalí featuring dreamlike characters and mythological / symbolic figures. -
Origins of Architectural Pleasure is a book written by Grant Hildenburg which discusses ways in which architectural forms emulate some archetypal settings that people have found appealing throughout time.