Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another? ~ Ch. 10
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Happiness is subjective and cannot be fully defined by one person for another.
- In plain terms
- People experience happiness differently, so one person cannot define it for someone else.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept that happiness is personal and varies from person to person.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you define happiness?
- Can you truly know another's joy?
Another view
Some universal aspects of happiness might be definable across cultures.
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