What does it mean to be happy?

Question: What does it mean to be happy!?

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Finding happiness is like finding yourself!. You don't find happiness, you make happiness!. You choose happiness!. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings YOU the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run!.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony!.

Happiness is living in a state of freely choosing to create and exchange one's rational values with others!.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence!.

Let's define happiness as a feeling of contentment created when all of one's physical, emotional, psychological, intellectual and spiritual needs have been gratified!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Hello,

(ANS) NO! NO!! NO!! You cannot make yourself happy, its NOT a mental process therefore you cannot decide in my opinion to be happy or not to be happy!.

**Happiness is "a state of being" its NOT controlled by human will power!. Therefore its not under conscious control, it cannot be turned on or off as we please!.

**Happiness is experienced ONLY when the right conditions for it arise in a persons life!.

**Happiness is often talked about as the holy grail of existence, yet ironically the more a person (people) chase after happiness the more happiness eludes them!. Like chasing shadows!!

**Material goods & material objects, or services have little ability to really make a person happy!. This is the lie of materialism the happiness is so short lived and this is what shopping is based upon!. Constantly trying to fill up the inner emptiness with more goods but it doesn't work of course!.

**Happiness owes more to a process of "letting go" than to holding on in my experience! Happiness is a condition few people seem to really experience in there lives here in the western countries!.

**Happiness is a state which is completely free from fear or anxieties about self or others, free from fears about the past or the future!. Being happy is a condition of being fully present in the moment (of each moment) and yet also letting go of that moment too!. Its a fluid state of being, a state of being in the now and no where else, that is the condition of happiness!. Of being free from all fears by letting go!. Its 100% not a mental or intellectual process either!.

Just let go!! thats all that is required to be happy!!

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like jubran has said there is no such things a "happy ever after" it doesnt exist, happiness and sadness are inseparable brothers, like black and white, so no black without white and no happiness without sadness!.!.!.!.
so happiness is just a feeling of satisfaction that things are going alright!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

to wake up in the morning look up and think

damn I love my life!

then happiness x 2 ,

see somebody you love next to you and think mmm

damn i love my wife
then x 3

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going from being a battered widow with 5 kids to a happily married respected woman and having another baby!.!.!.
going from living a dreded drudged and agonising life to being happy everyday!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.

looking at your kids and knowing you did the right ting getting out!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.

even though he killed himself riddled with guilt for what he did!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.

yes happiness comes from within!.!.!.xxxxxxxx

liz(45)yr old mother of 6

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Happiness simply is the joy that comes from succeeding at whatever it is you think you should be doing!.

The purpose of Happiness is to motivate you to be successful!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

to be successful in the field that you love

to prove your self in this life

to get what you want after a hard labour

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all of those and more give you the feeling of happinessWww@QuestionHome@Com

to be happy means you get to do what you really want!.!.!.makin you feel happy/ this relating to the question whether you want freewill or choices!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It means everything!. It means that life is smiling back at us!.
Happiness is completely free and yet, most of us spend a fortune trying to find it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

To be happy means to have something better than what you're expecting to have or receive!.It goes beyond things that comes in a positive way unexpected!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Keeping always others happy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Happiness comes usually in short moments!.!.!.

I don't try to pick it apart any furture than that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

to be content with your life and not to long for the unattainable - which probably won't make you any happierWww@QuestionHome@Com

True and lasting happiness always comes from within!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

To have happiness!?!?Www@QuestionHome@Com