
“The only way to make people good, is to make them happy.”
Ch 11
A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)
Variant: The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
“The only way to make people good, is to make them happy.”
Ch 11
A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 147
Essay on Mitford's History of Greece (1824)
“Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.”
“Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.”
“I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Source: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 10