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It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

— Polly Toynbee

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.

— James Altucher

Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.

— Elizabeth Bibesco

Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.

— Shawn Achor

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

— Ayn Rand

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

— Iris Murdoch

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

— Dale Carnegie

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

— John Stossel

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

— Richard Bach

✗Opposing Perspectives

Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.

— Adam Davidson

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

— Polly Toynbee