Loving the life you lead --
In the garden of pleasures, with Aristotle and Epicurus --
Giving meaning to life --
Voltaire and the happy idiot --
Does every human being wish to be happy? --
Happiness is not of this world: Socrates, Jesus, Kant --
On the art of being oneself --
Schopenhauer: happiness lies in our sensibility --
Does money make us happy? --
The emotional brain --
On the art of being attentive ... and dreaming --
We are what we think --
The time of a life --
Can we be happy without other people? --
The contagiousness of happiness --
Individual happiness and collective happiness --
Can the quest for happiness make us unhappy? --
From desire to boredom: when happiness is impossible --
The smile of the Buddha and Epictetus --
The laughter of Montaigne and Chuang Tzu --
The joy of Spinoza and Ma Anandamayi.

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"A huge bestseller in Europe, Frederic Lenoir's Happiness is an exciting journey that examines how history's greatest philosophers and religious figures have answered life's most fundamental question: What is happiness and how do I achieve it? From the ancient Greeks on--from Aristotle, Plato, and Chuang Tzu to the Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad; from Voltaire, Spinoza, and Schopenhauer to Kant, Freud, and even modern neuroscientists--Lenoir considers the idea that true and lasting happiness is indeed possible."--Book jacket.