Perhaps that's one take - away from the book; you may not
achieve perfect happiness, but you need to act in your own interests to achieve whatever level of happiness that is possible in your circumstance.
Not exact matches
Oddly enough, responsibility and hard work provide the
perfect recipe for
happiness: When you
achieve your goals, when you feel fulfilled, when your life has meaning — that's a wonderful definition of
happiness.
While, of course, it's hard to deny that going on a wonderful vacation or spending an evening with a friend at a new restaurant with great food stimulates a spontaneous sense of
happiness, and it makes
perfect sense that
achieving a long - sought goal will make you feel good, these sources of
happiness are unreliable.
In other words, even if we were to
achieve this
perfect redistribution of global wealth at exactly the ideal
happiness threshold, global GDP would still have to more than double by mid-century, at the same time that global carbon emissions should be cut by half or more.