“Happiness is the gauge that measures your relationship with God.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 25
Arjo Klamer (1996). The Value of Culture: On the Relationship Between Economics and Arts, p. 24; cited in: Sławomir Magala (2005), Cross-cultural Competence.
“Happiness is the gauge that measures your relationship with God.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 25
“The success of a relationship should be measured by its depth, not by its length.”
The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships (2015)
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals" (1976)
“Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.”
Source: The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1821) (Third Edition), Chapter I, Section I, On Value, p. 5
“Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities”
Source: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter V.
Context: Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. But after the division of labour has once thoroughly taken place, it is but a very small part of these with which a man's own labour can supply him. The far greater part of them he must derive from the labour of other people, and he must be rich or poor according to the quantity of that labour which he can command, or which he can afford to purchase. The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities.
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
Remarks by President Obama in Address to the United Nations General Assembly (24 September 2013) http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/24/remarks-president-obama-address-united-nations-general-assembly
2013