Tuesday, 3 June 2014

what is happiness?

what is happiness?


Happiness. It's something that we all need, however do we truly acknowledge what makes us upbeat? Like the idea of "achievement", it is maybe best that we comprehend what makes us joyful, if so we don't fall into the trap of pursuing another person adaptation of the statement.
The accompanying are 10 quotes that each, as I would like to think, give a key understanding into what happiness truly is:

Love:
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” – George Sand

Living in harmony
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” - Mohandas K. Gandhi

Something that must come from within
“People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.” - Ramona L. Anderson

Enjoying today
“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.” - Margaret Bonnano

A state of mind
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” - Abraham Lincoln

Is something that comes naturally
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.” - W. Beran Wolfe

Experiencing both pleasure and meaning
“Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning” - Tal Ben-Shahar, author of Happier

Lies in the thrill of creative effort
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Appreciating what we have
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” - Federick Keonig

The meaning of life
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence” - Aristotle

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