Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources.
Various research groups, including Positive psychology, endeavor to apply the scientific method to answer questions about what "happiness" is, and how we might attain i...
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- Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date. ,
- Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. ,
- It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. ,
- We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light. ,
- A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. ,
- A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. ,
- Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. ,
- You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ,
- True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. ,
- Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
Works Written About This Topic:
- Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class ,
- Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life ,
- The Spirit of Happiness: Discovering God's Purpose for Your Life ,
- Secrets to Happiness ,
- William Maxwell: Early Novels and Stories ,
- Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy ,
- Happiness: Lessons from a New Science ,
- Exuberance: The Passion for Life ,
- Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art ,
- Happiness: A History
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- Happy mood,
- Cheerful mood
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