Darrin McMahon Human Quotations

That's when happiness became an assumed entitlement of all human beings. Unfortunately, that puts a great deal of pressure on us.

It's only relatively recently that human beings have begun to think of happiness as not just an earthy possibility, but also in some ways as an obligation or entitlement, a natural human right. I think this has created a new and very modern pressure, even a new type of unhappiness: the unhappiness of not being happy.