do you search for happiness?

Question

will that thirst ever be quneched?

Answer 1

Nope. No need to search. Happiness isn't "out there", it's inside you, and all you need to do to find it is look. You choose it like you choose anything else: your clothes, your job, your breakfast cereal. Decide that you'll be happy, and you will be.

If you think it's somewhere else, then you'll never find it; if you think it depends on others, or material goods, or money, or something other than your own heart, soul and brain, then you won't be happy--because none of those things last, and they are all subjective. Some other person will always have more than you--and true happiness isn't about quantity--it's about QUALITY.

Happiness isn't a quantity, it's not goods, it's not a 'thing' to be found like a nice sweater or even a good job; happiness is a state of mind that you can access anywhere, any time, with any amount of wealth or status. If you can't understand that, then your "thirst" will never be quenched.

Answer 2

In a way we are all searching for our own happiness. All that we obtain and all that we achieve are an attempt to make us happy. But the question is not if we search for happiness, but what is true happiness and how do we obtain it? This though is the question that not all of us ask. This is the understanding that must be reached in order to be happy. However it is not an understanding that is easily gained. Even more, it is not sure if it is even a thing that can be understood. But, maybe the simple quest to try and understand this is what leads to happiness. It is however not a thing that any but yourself can answer. So start this pursuit and always question the path you are taking.

Answer 3

Yes! I have searched for it, but not yet found and all those happiness I got were illusions. A rich man always try to make more money and try to make it secure, so he or she is always worried about it, hence they have no happiness and a poor man vice versa. All that we achieve here is only illusion, but if we can wipe the tears of people those who are suffering, at least we can satisfy ourselves that we are more happier than some others.

I think people like Mother Teresa had found their life meaningful and happier by working in slums of Kolkata.

Answer 4

in this world of sorrows &dejections one always wants sumthing to look up to...this world is like a dark tunnel and we r passing and walking thru that tunnel and what we all are looking for is light and the light we want in the end is a light which is so beautiful and surreal and in our language it is called-happiness....now if u reach at the end of the tunnel and still are unable..to see the light that means this happiness would come from within and no one can give u this so....the thirst for happiness would never b quenched!!!

Answer 5

Happiness is not an external "thing" you can go find. It is an internal choice you make about how you want to percieve the world around you. I think there are basically two types of people in the world, those who see the glass as half empty and those that see it as half full. You get to decide what type you want to be, pesimistic or optimistic, and you should make this choice consciously as part of you journey to inner peace.
It is a very simple process really. You can either focus on the good things in life or on your misery. All of us humans on this rock have plenty of both in our lives, that's one thing that we all share. So when you get up in the morning start out by using positive self-talk techniques. This would be like saying inside you head, "Wow I am alive again today, what a miracle!" When you catch yourself thinking about the negative aspects of things, make a mental effort to find something good about the situation. For example, when I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, I cried for about two days straight. Then I decided wait a minute, this could be a whole lot worse, I could be dead but I am not! I had to take the time to find things about this new disease my body had that I could measure as worthwhile and I did. Because I was sick I couldn't work anymore and I discovered that I had a lot more time to do things that were important to me, like going back to college and spending time with my loved ones. It helped me to reevaluate my life and focus on things that were truly important to me, where before I was diagnosed I was spending 80 hours a week making money so I could buy things that really had a very short lived effect of giving me pleasure; the new wears off very fast when you buy things.
Now this is not to say that I don't like money and things, of course I do. But I was overvaluing them and making money a bigger priority that it really was to me. So there were a lot of positive things that came out of what on the surface would seem like a very tragic event. I had to make the choice to decide to see it this way though, it didn't just happen by itself. So like I said, YOU get to decide if you are happy or not.

Answer 6

Happiness is an effect. It cannot be sought directly.

Happiness is the effect of possessing what we believe to be the good.

We may be mistaken in our belief about the good.

Only the good brings lasting happiness.

The good is eternal life.

Eternal life is the knowledge of God.

Good question.

Answer 7

I don't think you go out and search for happiness, the only searching you have to do is within yourself, b/c that's where it starts... if your not happy with yourself then your miserable and won't ever be happy.

Answer 8

No I don;t have to search for happiness, because I am happy in the knowledge that my lifestyle is improving all the time.

Answer 9

That's a good question. Humans are driven by happiness and contentment. If that thurst was completly quenched there would be no drive.

Answer 10

Yes i do. It part of my goal in life, in which I am doing at present.