What It Takes To Be Happy

Lauren Reiff
7 min readMay 1, 2021
Photo by Andrei Panfiloiu on Unsplash

“For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the byproduct of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.”

Lauren Reiff

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Writer of economics, psychology, and lots in between. laurennreiff@gmail.com / I moved! Find me here: laurenreiff.substack.com

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