Sam Harris, Taming the Mind http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/taming-the-mind (April 12, 2014)
2010s
Context: Your life doesn't get any better than your mind is: You might have wonderful friends, perfect health, a great career, and everything else you want, and you can still be miserable. The converse is also true: There are people who basically have nothing—who live in circumstances that you and I would do more or less anything to avoid—who are happier than we tend to be because of the character of their minds. Unfortunately, one glimpse of this truth is never enough. We have to be continually reminded of it.
“If you want to live a purpose filled life, what better goal to guide your career is there than saving the planet?”
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On Trusting God
Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Ch. 4, p. 173
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”
As quoted by Ernst Straus in Einstein: A Centenary Volume by A.P. French (1980), p. 32.
Attributed in posthumous publications
Variant: "if you want to be a happy man, you should tie your life to a goal, not to other people and not to things." A quote from Ernst Straus' memoir of Einstein in Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives edited by Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana (1982), p. 420 http://books.google.com/books?id=CNuwE3NL1QgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA420#v=onepage&q&f=false
" Where does the uttered Music go? http://www.williamwalton.net/works/choral/where_does_the_uttered_music_go.html" (1946)
“…and for human beings on this planet it isn't wisdom that guides, it's wants.”
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