The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps—located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.

But Veenhoven’s research shows that tolerant people tend to be happy

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”