Our search to understand what makes humans happy (or happier) goes back centuries. As does our enduring belief that if we just do the right thing, happiness will follow — that additional happiness will be doled out to us because we earned it, not due to the largess of a benevolent being. "Happiness is not a reward — it is a consequence," instructs Robert Green Ingersoll, a Civil War-era orator. Many notable others, from Aristotle to the Buddha to Ursula K. LeGuin, agree with this sentiment.
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The views expressed in this article are indeed excellent and inspiring. The greatest source of happiness is our own self kept engaged in doing things which are source of happiness to others.
on Jun 10, 2011