What Is Happiness: Let’s Define Happiness With Some Happiness Quotes
What is happiness?
I often get asked this question. The definition of ‘What is happiness’ is somewhat varied.
I will give you the various definitions of happiness that I have uncovered and I have presented them as happiness quotes.
In our quest to discover how to find happiness, let us look at what some philosophers have come up with as their definition of happiness. You could call them happiness quotes if you like.
“Happiness is not a reward – It is a consequence”
Robert Ingersol
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing”
George Sheehan
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values”
Ayn Rand
“Happiness is the spiritual existence of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude”
Denis Waitley
“Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think”
Wayne Dyer
Aristotle defines happiness as:
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“I’ve learnt from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances”
Martha Washington
“Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment”
George Santayana
“It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation, which gives happiness”
Thomas Jefferson
“The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness”
Maharishi Yogi
Merriam Webster Online Dictionary has defined happiness as:
“a state of well being or contentment”
“a pleasurable or satisfying experience”
WordNet has a fairly similar definition of happiness:
“state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy”
“emotions experienced when in a state of well-being”
As you can tell, the definitions are quite varied. One thing is clear, if you want to be happy, then you have to make a conscious decision to learn how to find happiness and it will be yours.
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