And in fact you can find that the lack of basic resources material resources contributes to unhappiness but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.
Happiness is only real when shared.
We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.
The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
The last part the part you're now approaching was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.
I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness Population: Them.
I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness is giving.
In civilized life where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.