5| Maybe You Miss Something About Happiness

Happiness may be the most legitimate aspiration of everyone but what is happiness? It could be satisfaction, success, conquest, or anything else.

Happiness is different for each person, each family, each generation, each age, and each culture. You might feel happy when you satisfy with what you have but others might think happiness is when they have good health, a united family, wholehearted friends, and get their desired career. Sometimes, happiness is simple things when you have favorite things to do, a special person to share and love and a safe and sound home to come…Step by step, no matter how long or short, you feel improved and get closer to your reasons and purposes to live, that is called happiness.

If you are wondering what happiness is, you might want to see the quotes below to see how lucky you are and how fate favors you.

What is happiness?

1. “Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness”. - Frank Tyger

2. “Real happiness is not of temporary enjoyment, but is so interwoven with the future that it blesses for ever”. - James Lendall Basford

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

4. “Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.” - Ann Brashares

5. “Happiness is not a goal ... it's a by-product of a life well lived”. - Eleanor Roosevelt

6. “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is”. - Maxim Gorky

7. “Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress – the solutions to today’s problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow’s problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving”. - Mark Manson

8. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude”. - Denis Waitley

9. “Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the absolute best in him/her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing…just expressed differently”. - Robert McPhillips

10. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony”. - Mahatma Gandhi

11. “Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things”. - Maxime Lagacé

12. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get”. - Dale Carnegie

13. “Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling”. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

14. “Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration”. - Pat Conroy

15. “Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy”. - M. Reinoso

16. “Happiness is a way station between too little and too much”. - Channing Pollock (Mr. Moneypenny)

17. “Happiness is a function of accepting what is”. - Werner Erhard

18. “Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give”. - Norman MacEwan

19. “Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness”. - Don Marquis

20. “Happiness is the natural flower of duty”. - Phillips Brooks

21. “Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other”. - Norman Bradburn

22. “Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill”. - Johnny Carson

23. “Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response”. - Mildred Barthel

24. “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world”. - Orhan Pamuk

How to be happy

1. “The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have”. - Woody Allen

2. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes”. - Andrew Carnegie

3. “The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life”. - Euripides

4. “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”. - Frederick Keonig

5. “The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life”. - Roy T. Bennett

6. “One of the simplest ways to stay happy is by letting go of the things that make you sad”. - Tinku Razoria

7. “You can never be really happy if you keep holding to those bad memories which make you sad”. - Anurag Prakash

8. “There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations”. - Jodi Picoult

9. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things”. - Robert Brault

10. “Perfectionism is the enemy of happiness. Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier. We make mistakes because we are imperfect. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep moving forward”. - Roy T. Bennett

11. “If you are not happy here and now, you never will be”. - Taisen Deshimaru

12. “Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it”. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

13. “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage”. - Carrie Jones

14. “The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you”. - Tony Robbins

15. “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be”. - Marcel Pagnol

16. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet”. - J. Robert Oppenheimer

17. “Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window — or break down a door.” - Brooke Shields

18. “Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want”. - Alan Cohen

19. “If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time”. - Edith Wharton

20. “We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony”. - Thomas Merton

21. “The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life”. - William Morris

Happiness comes from you

1. “Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself”. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. “Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy”. - Beyoncé

3. “If you want to be happy, be”. - Leo Tolstoy

4. “The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are”. - Goldie Hawn

5. “Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it”. - Groucho Marx

6. “It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it”. - Dale Carnegie

7. “Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude”. - Roy T. Bennett

8. “Misery is almost always the result of thinking”. - Joseph Joubert

9. “Joy is not in things; it is in us”. - Richard Wagner

10. “We can’t control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement”. - David C. Hill

11. “Happiness is not defined by any circumstance, condition, or person. You need not tie your happiness to anything. The choice to be happy is always yours to make. Make that choice and cultivate a happy spirit”. - Dr Anil Kr Sinha

12. “Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not”. - Valerie Bertinelli

13. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts”. - Marcus Aurelius

14. “Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be”. - William Adams

15. “The notion of happiness doesn’t exist in nature, it only exists in your mind”. - Maxime Lagacé

16. “Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it”. - Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

No matter what happened, smile and give anyone you meet your lovely smile. Perhaps your smiles are the only sunshine that person might see on that day. Do not wonder if it is worth doing or not, smile more, dream more and attempt more, life will smile with you, and one day you might reach twinkling stars out there. I might not an angel but I hope my sharing could make you love and respect your life more.

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