Personal Happiness

If thou wilt make

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. Epicurus

Happiness is the consequence

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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining … Read more

A U. S. of

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A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness. David Foster

The millennium development goals

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The millennium development goals are important, both morally and economically, because much of the world’s population maybe is as much as a third of the world’s population hasn’t yet reached the level of economic development where we begin to get a dissociation from people’s economic status and their reports about personal happiness. So we really … Read more

Success is getting what

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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. Dale Carnegie