a quote about happiness

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.   ---Eleanor Roosevelt

Saw this a while ago.  Thought it really meaningful.  And as usual went and searched for it's source.  I found it is from a book Eleanor wrote in 1960.  

The whole quote is a bit different, I don't know why.  

"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively. After a short time, a very short time, there would be little that one really enjoyed. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people."

 

Saw this at brainpickings.org.  The article quotes another paragraph right behind the above ones:

 

"It is easy to slip into self-absorption and it is equally fatal. When one becomes absorbed in himself, in his health, in his personal problems, or in the small details of daily living, he is, at the same time losing interest in other people; worse, he is losing his ties to life. From that it is an easy step to losing interest in the world and in life itself. That is the beginning of death.  "

I find I am that quotation, just by admitting it is living the words...  By golly...