“I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don’t just go ahead and be happy.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 1.
“Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are people who are happy with what they already have. Happy people engage in satisficing all of the time, even if they don’t know it.”
— Daniel Levitin, book The Organized Mind
The Organized Mind (2014)
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