Answers Quote by Richard Layard, Baron Layard

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that…

— Alastair Campbell

“We need a revolution in academia, with every social science attempting to understand the causes of happiness.”

— Richard Layard

“felicity. It’s simple math, though. Add up the pleasurable aspects of your life, then subtract the unpleasant ones. The result is your overall happiness.…

— Eric Weiner

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

— L. Ron Hubbard

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was asked. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

— John Buchan

“Real happiness comes from the cultivation, the development, of the highest that is in us.”

— Orison Swett Marden

“And if happiness were common, it would preserve itself, because appeals to hatred and fear, which now constitute almost the whole of politics would…

— Bertrand Russell

“our job as citizens, apparently, is the pursuit of happiness. Something I always have to gird myself for. I’d much rather just be happy,…

— Peter Heller

“The highest happiness is the feeling of wellbeing which comes to one who is actively employed in doing what he was made to do;…

— Orison Swett Marden

“When we understand who we are, and how our realities work, we can choose more consciously to shape our lives in an optimal way.…

— Raphael Zernoff

Everything we do should contribute to happiness.

— Sharon Gannon