Bhutan Quotes

• The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

  Derek Bok

  Country, Goal, India

  "Should Governments Make Happiness A Priority?". Interview with Alison St. John, www.kpbs.org. April 26, 2011.

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• The moment you enter Bhutan, you notice that there are no traffic lights. It is almost like you've stepped into a Shangri-La or a vortex of time 200 years ago. Those kinds of experiences are very much of the countryside of Bhutan, where people are truly happy in the sense of not creating and wanting more.

  Karan Bajaj

  Light, Years, Creating

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Bharat for Bhutan and Bhutan for Bharat. The colour of our passports may be different but our thinking is the same. India stands committed to Bhutan's happiness and progress.

  Narendra Modi

  Thinking, Progress, India

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• I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.

  Richard Ford

  Flower, Taken, Smell

  "Richard Ford: Pulitzer winner, focused reader". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. September 15, 2012.

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• World talks GDP but in Bhutan its about National Happiness. Am sure having India as a neighbour would be 1 of the reasons for the happiness.

  Narendra Modi

  Gdp, World, Politics

  Twitter post from Jun 15, 2014

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• To be associated with a film that just flat-out makes people happy is such a blessing and a tremendous privilege, and I'll always be grateful for it. People's eyes light up when they talk about it. I've been in Asia, Africa, Europe and even Bhutan; people know the movie there. It's just an amazing thing.

  Michael J. Fox

  Grateful, Eye, Blessing

  "'Back to the future' cast reunites in real time" by Bryan Reesman, www.mtv.com. October 25, 2010.

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• Seven years is a short time in the history of a country's democracy. But in this short time, people of Bhutan have developed faith in the institutions of democracy.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Years, People

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• In the year that I take off, I don't have any goals. I just surrender to experiences like traveling or learning yoga and meditation or just living in a completely random place like Mongolia or Portugal or Bhutan. Then when I come back, I am much more intuitive, creative, right-brained. That kind of system has been working very well for me.

  Karan Bajaj

  Yoga, Years, Goal

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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