Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. That's why millions of illegal immigrants have poured into the country - most of them poor. They believe they have a shot to improve themselves economically.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken.
The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'