The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

by Eric Weiner

Even if you have achieved great things, it is a sort of theater playing in your mind. You think it so important, but actually you have not made such a difference to anyone’s life.”

We are all a center of our own universe...

GDP measures everything, Kennedy concluded, “except that which makes life worthwhile.”

Moldova is the poor man in a rich neighborhood, never a happy position to be in.

Let’s say you’re on a flight, and there is a problem, an engine has caught fire. Would you want an optimistic pilot at the controls? Perhaps, but what you really want, Tim says, is a wise pilot. Wisdom born from years of experience.

Some people don’t want to be happy, and that’s okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.”