Happiness Index Quotes

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

The kingdom of Bhutan replaced standard economic measures with measures of happiness as long ago as 1972. Yet Bhutan’s G.D.P. per head is still one of the lowest in the world, life expectancy is relatively low and infant mortality high, so it is easy to see why the king would not want anyone to mention the economy.

I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.

If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of Gross National Happiness, too. Certainly I have found, as many travellers before me, that people in the poorest places are often the readiest to shower me, from an affluent country, with hospitality and kindness.

Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile

The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.

A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands were counting money and their mouths were full of chocolate.

And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

According to a new study, Hawaii is the happiest place in America to live. And I thought it was just a great place to pretend you were born in.

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers, usually at others' expense. Then in recent decades it was all about GDP. It's only in very recent history that rulers have been willing to commit themselves to helping their citizens live happier lives.

The day I'm able to be debt-free is the day I'm going to be the happiest guy around.

Is anyone anywhere happy?

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

World talks GDP but in Bhutan its about National Happiness. Am sure having India as a neighbour would be 1 of the reasons for the happiness.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.

According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.