Angus Deaton Quotes

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know

Being happy, being healthy, is the most important thing.

You can't be in a situation where you are not happy. It's as simple as that.

Enjoying life for me is just normal.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.

I think the problem with the word 'happiness' is that it sounds fluffy. It sounds like something trivial that we shouldn't be concerned with.

We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

Happiness isn't a position. It's a trajectory.

I think the most important thing in life is to be happy. If you're happy, it will show in everything that you do.

Happiness is the target one only has to aim at in order to miss.

For me, the small joys of life make me happy.

I am very positive. I like to box. I like my life. I am happy every day.

I'm concerned about people being happy.

I enjoy my life very much.

I feel my best when I'm happy.