Quote by Arthur C. Brooks

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to

Summary

This quote highlights that the correlation between income and happiness is not as straightforward as commonly believed. Research indicates that achieving a sense of fulfillment and purpose, referred to as "earned success," is a significant determinant of happiness. It emphasizes the importance of individuals feeling that they have contributed value to their own lives or the lives of others for experiencing genuine happiness. This suggests that material wealth alone does not guarantee overall well-being and that a deeper sense of accomplishment and meaning is crucial for achieving true happiness.

Topics

Happiness

By Arthur C. Brooks

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the pr

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

Anger

Human life in common is only made possible when a majority c

Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.

Majority

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Philosophy

O honorable strumpet

O honorable strumpet

William Shakespeare

Humor Funny Tragedy

Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy

Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov), 1922

Communism

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from si

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

Art

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interest

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Johann von Goethe

We also listen to PJ Harvey a lot of driving music. You need

We also listen to PJ Harvey a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car.

Brody Armstrong

Car

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

Good

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard,

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

Friedrich A. Hayek

Economics

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Rest Leisure

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of A

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Freedom