In the 1945 book, “Man’s Search for Meaning” Victor Frankl, wrote: “Don’t aim for success, the more you aim for it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued, it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as a by product of ones surrender to a person other than oneself.”
Frankl states that happiness is a by product of dedicating oneself to a greater cause. It is not a solitary act.