<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The sad story of happiness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Statistics tell. You can be <br>independent of them, but<br>you cannot deny them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though white Americans are freed<br>from many of the hassles and indignities<br>that affect black Americans, yet, <br>on average, they are only<br>very slightly happier.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men have more power and freedom<br>than women, yet, on average, <br>they are not any happier.<br>(Women experience more depression, <br>but also more intense joy..) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though the young have so much more<br>to look forward to, than the elderly, <br>yet ratings of life satisfaction rise slightly<br>up to age sixty-five, and for some, beyond..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">People in colder areas of the USA<br>might expect Californians to be<br>happier. They are wrong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Surely people who are more attractive<br>are happier than the unattractive? <br>Not so..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you’re adequately housed, <br>adequately clothed, adequately fed, <br>then wealth will surely bring you greater happiness? <br>The rich are only a very little<br>happier than the middle classes…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So is this the end of <br>The American Dream – Joe, <br>José, Leroy, Yusuf, Gianni, Johan, Boris, Ivan, Ravi? <br>isn’t there a happy ending, over the border, <br>over the ocean, over the rainbow? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, there is…<br>happy people grow rich faster..</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(thanks to Jon Haidt for this)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460281" data-title="The sad story of happiness de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Statistics tell. You can be independent of them, but you cannot deny them. Though white Americans are freed from many of the hassles and indignities that affect black Americans, yet, on average, they are only very slightly happier. Men have mo..."></div> </div> </div>

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