Dan

“Prosperity is not hard-wired into human beings; it must be orchestrated and sustained by political leadership.”
― Zachary D. Carter, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

“Buddhism, the Four Immeasurables. “There are four good things worth practicing. Being kind toward everything alive. Staying level and steady. Feeling happy for any creature anywhere that is happy. And remembering that any suffering is also yours.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment

“When they sang, we heard them. We sang with them, and welcomed this new life into a world that is cruel, but that has love in it, too, if you know where to look. This is how we are remembered. In snatches of song, in dreams, in the smile that passes between mother and child. These are the parts of us that cannot be destroyed. These are the parts of us that feed the roots, and keep them strong. The soil is fertile. Our tree grows on.”
― Eleanor Shearer, River Sing Me Home

“You don’t become obsessed with happiness, trying to maximize it and experimenting to calibrate it, unless it’s a mystery. If you’re already happy, if it comes easily to you, you don’t need to ponder it. It’s only if you can’t attain it that it consumes you.”
― Angie Kim, Happiness Falls