Happiness Gap Quotes

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

Not every vacation is equal. And theory - the idea that vacations should increase happiness - doesn't always translate to reality.

I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.

Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and what would be desirable, while in the poor countries large masses of people seem to be satisfied by merely surviving.

The child asks, 'Why don't I have this happiness thing you're telling me about?'

Women have everything they want, and they've never been so unhappy.

I was used to being successful in school, but academics didn't make me happy.