Long-Sustained Effort for Happiness

Research shows that happiness is not the result of bouncing from one experience to the next. Instead, achieving happiness typically involves a long-sustained effort for something more important in life. Happiness is determined by habits, behaviors, and thought patterns that we can directly address with intentional action. Much of our happiness is actually “under personal control.”

Paths to True Happiness

By Elder Ulisses Soares

Of the Presidency of the Seventy

From a commencement address, “Paths for Happiness,” given at Brigham Young University–Hawaii on June 8, 2017. For the full address, go to devotional.byuh.edu/archive.