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Our culture has been obsessed with promoting happiness for centuries and it doesn’t seem to be working.
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…I’m encouraging you to opt out of the quest for happiness altogether. Focus on finding fulfillment, forging your own path, and living a life in line with your values.
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The single biggest predictor of human happiness is the quality of a person’s relationships.
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…people whose jobs match their personal interests are, in general, happier with their lives as a whole.
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…matching your job to what captures your attention and imagination is a good idea. It may not guarantee happiness and success, but it sure helps the odds.
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The paradox of happiness is that deliberately striving for it is fundamentally incompatible with the nature of happiness itself.
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It takes numerous encounters with positive people to offset the energy and happiness sapped by a single episode with one asshole.
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‘Close relationships, more than money or fame, are what keep people happy throughout their lives…’ – Harvard Gazette
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Happiness is love. Full stop. – George Vaillant
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Miswanting occurs when we discover that what we wanted did not make us happy.
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