Sometimes, you say " I am happy". In other times " you say I'm not happy".
What do you mean by happiness?
Join us by your opinion about the happiness.
Our Definition of Happiness is Changing.
Many people think there's been a rise in materialistic sorts of values
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
noun
1. the quality or state of being happy.
2. good fortune; pleasure; contentment; joy.
"1, 2. pleasure, joy, exhilaration, bliss, contentedness, delight, enjoyment, satisfaction. Happiness, bliss, contentment, felicity imply an active or passive state of pleasure or pleasurable satisfaction. Happiness results from the possession or attainment of what one considers good: the happiness of visiting one's family. Bliss is unalloyed happiness or supreme delight: the bliss of perfect companionship. Contentment is a peaceful kind of happiness in which one rests without desires, even though every wish may not have been gratified: contentment in one's surroundings. Felicity is a formal word for happiness of an especially fortunate or intense kind: to wish a young couple felicity in life."
May I add the following, Please?
What Is Happiness?
Most of us probably don’t believe we need a formal definition of happiness; we know it when we feel it, and we often use the term to describe a range of positive emotions, including joy, pride, contentment, and gratitude.
But to understand the causes and effects of happiness, researchers first need to define it. Many of them use the term interchangeably with “subjective well-being,” which they measure by simply asking people to report how satisfied they feel with their own lives and how much positive and negative emotion they’re experiencing. In her 2007 bookThe How of Happiness, positive psychology researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky elaborates, describing happiness as “the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/topic/happiness/definition
Dear @Qasim, let me bring to your attention good thread that is very related to this one by my dear friend @Nageswara : What do you think about an equation to precisely predict happiness? Around 140 answers, many fine responses.
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_do_you_think_about_an_equation_to_precisely_predict_happiness
Happiness is a feeling within the human self. He feels when his wishes achieved
Dear Mohammed El Nasschie
Love is one of the reasons that make the man happy.
Dear @Qasim, there are many components of happiness. You have to be self-satisfied, family-satisfied, society-satisfied, job-satisfied, career-satisfied.... in order to be happy!
Happiness is a 'felt state' of self, with respect to fulfilment of an expected level in a desired activity or requirement. It varies with person to person.
Dears,
- and maybe a few quotes?
:
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years (Bertrand Russell)
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. (Mahatma Gandhi)
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion (Dalai Lama)
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls (Mother Teresa)
Happiness is a way station between too little and too much (Channing Pollock)
It's a harmony between desirable and achievable (need and probability of meeting the needs). There is the formula of P.V.Simonov: E= f (П(Ис-Ин), where E-an emotion; П- strength and quality of an actual need; (Ис- Ин) - estimated probability (to suit the needs); Ин- information about the means, required for meeting the needs (in prognosis); Ис- information about the available means, which a subject belongs in reality. K.V.Anokhin added, that the strength of emotion is determined by the degree of the goal attainment. If the goal is achieved, it will be a positive emotion (happiness) and v.v.To L.Feuerbach, "Even snakes and toads have happiness, but their happiness is snakes' and toads' one". To E.Evtushenko, "I would like to be happy, but not at the expence of unhappy ones" Or to our proverb "You can't build your happiness on the unhappiness of others".http://www.bim-bad.ru/biblioteka/article_full.php?aid=1077
Happiness is the state of our mind for a duration of time in which the presumed expectations and what happens are in phase. Happiness has basis of wider domains and longer duration than pleasure, as pleasure is atomic or personal and instant/ short time ecstasy which may change instantly as well.
Happiness transcends to be a social value while pleasure in most cases is not.
Dear all
We can define happiness in terms of living a good life, or flourishing, rather than simply as an emotion. Happiness in this sense was used to translate the Greek Eudaimonia, and is still used in virtue ethics. There has been a transition over time from emphasis on the happiness of virtue to the virtue of happiness.
l am also agee with Ljubomir.
For me happiness "is to know to get it". This means that each in his kind of happiness in terms of what he wants most.
A happy man is not the one whose smile extends from ear to ear. A number of comedians were very sad in their real lives. Happiness is more deep than superficial appearance or pretense.
The British leader William Gladstone (1809 – 1898) thought of happiness as to be satisfied with what you possess personally & materially and to give as much as you can. I agree with this view of happiness & it is really well-sought on this earth:
"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.".
It is some thing that if one can define will never be able to become happy. Therefore let us not try to do the same. Forget it - forget all the critical problems and conflicts in your life and be happy.. Wish all of you an extremely happy life.
Regards
Anup
To me Happiness is:
1) you feel the presence of God with you
2) you understand the grace of God to you
3) you feel you are loved by your love ones
4) you have the inner peace & contentment in your heart that you don't feel like competing / fighting with others
5) a good feeling when you realize you'd helped someone needed your help
6) you have achieved what you'd struggled to achieve / success
7) you enjoy doing what you are dong - you don't feel tedious / tired of doing it
8) you want to share your joys with others
9) you reached the self-actualization state of Maslow Hierarchy of Needs
10) happiness can occur during multiple snapshots of times in your life or to others can be a way of life
This joyful ceremony of the world
জগতে আনন্দযজ্ঞে আমার নিমন্ত্রণ
jogoter anondo jogye amar nimontran
(Tagore's own translation)
Invited to this joyful ceremony of the world
Honoured has been this human life.
My eyes feast on lands of beauty
Wandering to quench it's desires
My hearing intoxicated
with the melody deep within
In your ceremony,
You have empowered me to play my flute
String together in songs the tears and laughter of life.
Is it time yet ?
To meet you in your august assembly
I will sing in triumphant chords
My humble offering
For me happiness is elusive because it can have several meanings for each of us. By cons happiness is the reflection of our inner emotion for what we want or we love. To each his own happiness
To V.N.Porus, "a subject is rational when he/she is irrational and v v."A smile may be only peculiar protection of a human being aiming not to load the personal problems on others. The state of happiness is changeable. We say about the grains of happiness, especially if we associate a happiness with a fortune.The human life is the higher value.To F.M.Dostoyevsky, "If only a human being would live, live, and live!Whatever that life may be...If only a human being would live! It's true! Oh God, how true is it!A human being is a scoundrel. And a scoundrel is someone, who calls a human being a scoundrel for it"
The happiness for some people is happen when
- They produce a free service to others.
- Live with his loves.
- They succeeded.
- When they away from danger threatened.
Therefore, the happiness is a individual sense of a completion or a demise of the risk or get gains.
Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being defined by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.
Research has produced many different views on causes of happiness, and on factors that correlate with happiness, --- but no validated method has been found to substantially improve long-term happiness in a meaningful way for most people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
--- Dalai Lama
Happiness, if you think about it, is the biggest conundrum we face. The pursuit of it is why we do basically everything that we do, and yet, none of that effort is necessary: it’s the simplest choice of changing our state of mind.
http://thoughtcatalog.com/briannaewiest/2013/03/happiness-is-a-choice/
What is happiness? Difficult to answer. According to the authoritative dictionary of Treccani, concerned only the "State and feelings of those who are happy." So far. The Garzanti, however, points out that "it is the state of mind of those who think positive satisfied all their desires." Still little. According to the French, the "bonheur" is "the enduring state of fullness, satisfaction and serenity, pleasant and balanced body and mind, where are absent the pain, stress, anxiety and agitation. Happiness is not just a state of passenger pleasure and joy is a lasting condition, a balance ". Better yet. The Germans on the other hand they take away, and that preliminary matter "is a broad term," which includes feelings that go "from a peaceful bliss in a state of ecstatic joy." They are the most honest.
Here: a complex thing to explain, it would seem, it is even more difficult to measure. Yet, as everyone knows, there are many indexes of happiness, more or less complex, seeking to ascertain whether a country or part of the population is more or less happy. And if it is not, it becomes a political issue. Maybe it already is, since the word happiness has become less and less present in our conversations:
There are definitions that focus on causes versus consequences of happiness.
What are evolutionary causes versus physiological causes of happiness? Any idea?
Happy and unhappy are two states of mind. It is just another example for the duality of our mind like love and hate. This duality also present in the physical world we feel, like black and white, short and long, heat and cold etc. People allow mind to jump between these two ends in relation to what they experience form the duality present in the external physical world through their five sensory organs and they understand the result as emotions. If somebody can train his or her mind to be happy even when he or she experience unhappiness, he or she can be happy forever.
https://www.facebook.com/SaviourReturns?fref=ts
Happiness is a time bound concept. It comes and go in one's life. Sometimes people are satisfied in every aspects but still they are not happy whereas there are instances of people who have lots of difficulties still they are happy. The individual response and perception towards happiness matters a lot in deciding whether a person is happy or not.....
In the circumstances of the crises, insecurity, instability, chaos, living with uncertainty over future an ordinary human being tries to survive, that's why one chooses the basic values- health, need for eating, safety need. The main imperative in a personality there is a choice- personal, moral, conceptual, in other words, every ordinary human being works out his/her own code of happiness: -work while you are healthy, providing for your family (not at the expense of others), - try to develop yourself, so that you can't degrade; - respect and help others, stand for peace, be patient; - save nature.
Can the feeling of happiness only be expressed in a dynamic world, not in a constant permanent state?
Qasim:
I experience happiness through a good "laugh" at a funny situation, genuine complements, a sumptuous meal, at family gatherings, functions honouring the work of my colleagues, success in my own undertakings etc. However, I recognise in all these experiences that it is thru others that I have come to be happy, so I cannot take it for granted that it is "something" I can do on my own.
according to each individual in this word, some find their happiness in love , some others like me now in food because I am hungry others in money......
Happiness is the the state of being happy. You can be so if sincerely want to move to that state. It requires strong determination to learn the necessary procedure. I am sure the procedure is non algorithmic but .surely a deterministic one.
Dear All:
'Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness.' (Carlos Drummond de Andrade)
Best Regards,
Andréa
Dear All:
'Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness.' (Carlos Drummond de Andrade)
Best Regards,
Andréa
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
Very interesting quotation:
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
This is about happiness and intelligence!
https://meetville.com/quotes/tag/intelligence/page12
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
--- Saul Bellow
"The most happy of all be the fools, the imbeciles, the dumb, and the unsightly, as they know not the stabs of conscience, fear not ghosts or any of the unliving, are not struck by the terror of impending events; neither are they seduced by the hopes of future bliss"
A. & B. Strugatsky, novel "Monday Begins on Saturday" borrowed from "In Praise of Folly" by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, year 1509.
My opinion: it is a happiness to go up - to learn more, to get new kids, to make new friends, to build new house, to plant new trees in your garden, to get new better job, etc., it is unhappiness to go down : to loose your frends and relatives, to feel that your cannot work so hard as you were younger, to see your kids sick, your home destroied, your garden burned.
Firstly;
If you are having sound health, then you may be happy.
Best regards.
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
--- Carl Jung
Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." — Albert Schweitzer
Secondly;
If you are having some money, then you may be happy.
Best regards.
Dear all
When we find a new goal, before we start it. Because we worry about what difficulties we will encounter. We imagine a lot disadvantage and we make a lot arrangement. So we feel unhappy. When we are working, we enjoy any procedure of overcoming difficulties. So we are happy.
Yes, Chun Liu,
You are correct. But there are many factors along with inner self those are responsible for keeping one happy.
income has a positive and significant effect on happiness
Pp5. Carol Graham, Shaojie Zhou, and Junyi Zhang, Happiness and Health in China: The Paradox of Progress, Global economy & Development, working paper 89, June 2015
Lovely quotation:
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus
Income may have effect on happiness, but it is not presumption of happiness. I do know many happy people with small income. Money can buy everything but happiness!
Dear Qasim
Happiness induced by others; Contentment induced by self
Narayanan
Thirdly;
If you are blessed with faithful and trustworthy spouse, then you may be happy.
Best regards.
Spouse's role --- is one factor! Happiness --- is the function of multiple factors!
The concept of happiness is intimately linked to desire. Being happy, that would fulfill all his desires, or at least realize all his desires "important". The happy man accomplishes the goals it has set, those with a value for itself. Happiness is rooted in the individual, in its projects and performances.Two elements of happiness to be considered:
- Happiness is a state in which one is aware
- Happiness has a paradoxical relationship to desir
Buddha about happiness, ego and desire!
http://www.thethingswesay.com/a-man-once-told-the-buddha-i-want-happiness-the-buddha-replied-first-remove-i-thats-ego-then-remove-want-thats-desire-and-now-all-youre-left-with-is-happiness/
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
--- George Sand
Fourthly;
If you are blessed with obedient and wise children, then you may be happy.
Best regards.
To be happy is to be content (satisfied) with what you have in life - and to serve a cause other than yourself. It is all about finding meaning in your life.
“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
For me happiness is a sentiment which only God can give to each one and in community.
Next:
If you are blessed with beautiful home, then you may be happy.
Best regards.
Happiness is summed up living.
Thomas Jefferson's preamble to the American Declaration of Independence stated: 'that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Researchers have found that happy people tend to:
- have high self-esteem
- be optimistic, outgoing
- have close friendship or s satisfying marriage
- have a meaningful religious faith
- sleep well and exercise
Next:
If you and your spouse are together, then you may be happy.
Best regards.
How fast you forget unfruitful and negative events/experiences, so much one will be happy!
Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.
Happy people are optimistic.
Happy people are grateful.
Happy people have close relationships
Happy people don't rehash the past.
Happy people tend to have balanced lives.
Dear Qasim,
Your question is very interesting: sounds simple and direct, but it is difficult to be answered. The answers to the question are also very interesting. I see, there is not a universal answer.
Anyway,
My best wishes, and be happy :)
N.F.
Next:
If you are having true friends, then you may be happy.
Best regards.
Happiness is just a sweet smile on the face caused by self noble work.
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
There is a beautiful poem in Hindi:
1. Pehla Sukh Nirogi kaya (Fit Body).
2. Doosra Sukh Ghar mein ho maya (Laxmi / Money / Wealth)
3. Teesra Sukh Pativarta Nari (Wife)
4. Chotha Sukh Putra Aaagyakari (Son)
5. Paanchwa Sukh Ho sunder vaas (Beautiful Home)
6. Chatha Sukh Ho sajan / sajni paas (Husband and Wife leaving together)
7. Saatvaan Sukh Ho mitra sachhe (True Friends)
Its gist in English language is as follows:
If you are having sound health, then you may be happy.
If you are having some money, then you may be happy.
If you are blessed with faithful and trustworthy spouse, then you may be happy.
If you are blessed with obedient and wise children, then you may be happy.
If you are blessed with beautiful home, then you may be happy.
If you and your spouse are together, then you may be happy.
If you are having true friends, then you may be happy.
Best Regards.
Happiness is not singular. It is multiple and everyone must make for himself the extent of what he wants
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
Why is Happiness so important?
Happiness is so important to us, both as individuals and as a world, primarily because happiness is really all there is. As human beings, although we possess cognitive abilities and are highly "thought" oriented, the quality of our lives is ultimately ENTIRELY determined by our emotions. For example, which life would you rather have; that of a very rich, attractive, successful, healthy, powerful person who despite all of those blessings is very unhappy or that of a very poor, unattractive, unsuccessful, unhealthy and powerless person who is nevertheless fortunate enough to be very happy?
Considering happiness within the framework of good and evil, or right and wrong, we find that what is evil or wrong is only undesirable because it diminishes the happiness of an individual or group, and that what is good and right is only so because it increases the happiness of and individual or group. In fact, British philosopher John Locke accurately defines goodness as that which creates happiness, and evil as that which creates unhappiness.
Happiness, which includes the pleasant emotions and moods that comprise it, is really the only aspect of our lives with any ULTIMATE value. Aristotle described it as "the highest good." Of what value is ANY good except that it facilitates the happiness, or greater happiness, of human beings and other life on our Planet? For the religious among us this would, of course, also include the happiness of God.
please, see the attached websites for detail:
http://www.sustainablescale.org/attractivesolutions/understandinghumanhappinessandwellbeing.aspx
http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/42141-happiness-for-humans/
http://thehappinessshow.com/WhyIsHappinessSoImportant.htm
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.- Leo Tolstoy
Read more: http://www.keepinspiring.me/famous-quotes-about-family/#ixzz3hYvL7C8c
That is right dear @Markovic, happiness is not supposed and it is easily overlooked! Later, in our memories, we do become conscious about it. Very often we do regret for!
Often, It is quoted that if some body is contended, then only he/she will be happy for ever.
Best Regards.
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." -
Mahatma Gandhi
Two beautiful quotes from Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
“We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness”
“Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.”
5 simple rules of happiness
"Happiness is not an intellectual choice, it’s an instinct, and a good in itself." –Liesl Schilllinger
Nobody detains a universal definition of the happiness. This is why the happiness is plural
"Be" --- Sometimes people remain happy in difficulties also! It is individual based inner self!
'Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.'
Dale Carnegie
You are right Subhash. Indeed being positive you are happy. Is not this a fight?
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