Accumulation Quote by Satish Kumar

People aren't happy unless they buy stuff, and that's because we have become this industrialized nation.

— Glenn Beck

There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great…

— Tarek Saab

Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and…

— P. J. O'Rourke

If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.

— Satish Kumar

We worry so much in this culture about being happy. The pursuit of happiness is even written in our Constitution. It's an erroneous concept…

— Agapi Stassinopoulos

Happiness is a perception of your own reality. There are many people around the world who barely have the basic necessities to survive, who…

— John Reyes

The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time…

— Andrew Weil

“The pursuit of happiness undeniably includes the pursuit of material well-being: minimally, being able to secure basic necessities. It can be overwhelming to consider…

— Matthew Desmond

America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. That's why millions of illegal immigrants have poured…

— Bill O'Reilly

It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’.

— Marisha Pessl

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If…

— Susan Jacoby