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
What is Happiness?
While happiness has many different definitions, it is often described as involving positive emotions and life satisfaction.
Sonja Lyubomirsky describes happiness in her book, The How of Happiness, as “the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.”
When most people talk about feeling happy, they might be talking about how they feel in the present moment, or they might be referring to a more general sense about how they feel about life and living overall.
Two Key Components of Happiness
Balancing Negative and Positive Emotions: Everyone experiences both positive and negative emotions, feelings, and moods. Feeling happy is generally linked to experiencing more positive feelings than negative.
Life satisfaction: This relates to how satisfied you feel with various areas of your life including your relationships with family and friends, work, achievements, and other things that you consider important.
Key Signs that you are Happy:
You feel that you are living the life you wanted
You feel that the conditions of your life are good
You feel that you have accomplished/ will accomplish what you want in life
Overall, you feel satisfied with your life and what you have achieved
You feel that your life is more positive than negative
Some Happiness Quotes to keep that positive feeling of happiness alive and to help steer you in the right direction to attaining fulfillment in life and living...
Do not wait to be happy.
The right time to be happy is NOW. ☘️
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
― Dalai Lama XIV
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
― Tom Bodett
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
― Audrey Hepburn
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
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
― Marcel Proust
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
― Roy T. Bennett
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
― Sylvia Plath
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
― W. P. Kinsella
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
― Roy T. Bennett
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