Exploring The Power of Words By Changing The Way We Write, Speak And Think Through A Special Language Called English Prime

After reading a few random quotations on "happiness" I wondered about re-thinking them through personally in less abstract English Prime.

So, let us see what has "been" said i.e. dogmatically and/or abstractly, and open the gateway to a new forum of (infinite) thought within the concept of "et cetera"…

SE: What is happiness? ~a psuedo-question
EP: What does "happiness" seem like to you? ~a real-question

SE: "That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest." ~Henry David Thoreau
EP: In my perception, a person who desires less equates with a higher contentment which may approximate with a personal philosophy of living life with simplicity.

SE: "It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis." ~Margaret Bonnano
EP: In my perception, a certain amount of strategic long-range thinking, planning and organization must come before we can build our happiness one day at a time.

SE: "Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination." ~Mark Twain
EP: I would hold that the notion of "sanity" corresponds with a person's capability to think logically and rationally that can produce an appropriate course of actions which should indeed generate "happiness". The original quote suggests to me that "happiness" does not seem to come from originating logical and rational thought. It then raises a question, does insanity generate happiness? It seems to me that it does though in a warped way such as an act of bullying or irrational self-interests to raise one's own "happiness" account, at least temporarily.

SE: "To fill the hour — that is happiness." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
EP: It seems to me that to raise your "happiness" credits you must do something productive of value. It also seems that a waste of time approximates to a waste of the life-energy that tallies with a moment lost in accruing personal "happiness".

SE: "Independence is happiness." ~Susan B. Anthony
EP: According to MSN Encarta, "independence" can simply mean freedom from control and I would say that it does equate with "happiness" since dependence on others would seem to me as dishonest and lazy unless the person(s) in question portray a true inability such as during a time of "illness". It raises the interesting thought of how it requires conscious effort to generate happiness which seems to me as the antithesis of relying on "spoon-feeding" that builds growing guilt and indifference to capitalising on the gift of life represented by our own existence.

SE: "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." ~George Burns
EP: It would seem to me that "happiness" has little or nothing to do with the existence of a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city unless we considered a warped-happiness associated with a long-distance spritual dependence.

Does it seem to you like the quotations in Standard English include distortions and high abstractions or "spooks" i.e. disassociations with reality in which E-Prime removes and attempts to re-associate leading the way to a "healthy" open-debate more in touch with reality?

P.S. The last quote by George Burns seemed to reek with insanity when I actually thought about trying to equate "happiness" with the other side of the "is" equation.

P.S. P.S. As it seems to me, each notional statement in English Prime evokes a clearer et cetera thought should anyone including myself wish to elaborate further on the anti-dogmatic ideas I have given.