Is Happiness the Primary Source of Happiness?

A lack of happiness in America is so often treated as a sign of weakness. Pascal said happiness was the motive behind every action of every man, whether he recognized it or not. A few days after that second H, I came across an article critiquing a recent study that had attempted to calculate America's gross national happiness. The writer said Happiness was impossible to measure with any accuracy. It was too abstract and loaded a word, its definitions too varied and personal.