The root of the trouble springs from too much emphasis upon competitive success as the main source of happiness. ... What I do maintain is that success can only be one ingredient in happiness, and is too dearly purchased if all the other ingredients have been sacrificed to obtain it.
Source: TThe Conquest of Happiness, 1930, chap.3:Competition<
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