Boyd K. Packer (deceased) spoke of finding happiness. . .
In finding happiness the real choice is between good and evil. Position and wealth . . . are no more essential to true happiness in mortality that their absence can prevent you from achieving it. Mortal life is a school, and most of the tests we undergo are multiple choice tests.
If your growth in college has been solely intellectual, you may not have learned in the course of earning your diploma that the choice in life is not between fame and obscurity, nor is it between wealth and poverty. The choice is between good and evil, and that is a very different matter indeed. When we finally understand this lesson, thereafter our happiness will not be determined by material things. We may be happy without them or successful in spite of them. ~ “Ordinances.” Address at Brigham Young University, 3 Feb 1980
True happiness is not dependent upon wealth. It is a misapprehension of most people that if you are good, really good, at what you do you will eventually be both widely known and well compensated. It is the understanding of almost everyone that success, to be complete, must include a generous portion of both fame and fortune as essential ingredients. The world seems to work on that premise. The premise is false. It is not true. The Lord taught otherwise. . . .You need not be either rich nor hold high position to be completely successful and truly happy. In fact, if these things come to you, and they may, true success must be achieved in spite of them, not because of them. “The Essence of Education.” Address at Weber College graduation, 10 June 1983
