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Counting Happiness

Counting Happiness

  • Money brings happiness.
  • Family and community seem to have more impact on our happiness than money and health.
  • Happiness depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.
  • If you want a bullock-cart and get a bullock-cart, you are content. If you want a brand-new Ferrari and get only a second-hand Fiat you feel deprived.

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The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.

“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.” — Helen Keller

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