What makes people happy?

Answer 1

Happiness is internal, not external..... people don't make you happy - YOU make you happy..... doing the right thing - helping others, feeling good about yourself; accomplishment.... once you understand that 'things' and 'people' don't make you happy, you'll be a truly happy person.

Answer 2

The Four Levels of Happiness REV. ROBERT SPITZER

1. laetus: Happiness in a thing. Thus, “I see the linguini, I eat the linguini, it makes me feel good, I am happy.” This kind of happiness is based on something external to the self, is short-lived and, on reflection, we do not consider that it is all there is to human happiness.


2. felix: The happiness of comparative advantage. “I have more of this than X.” “I am better at this than X.” This kind of happiness results from competition with another person. The self is seen in terms of how we measure up to others. It has been called “the comparison game.” Such happiness is rather unstable and, if one fails, can lead to unhappiness and sense of worthlessness. Exclusive pursuit tends to oppress others. Most people would not imagine a world as satisfactory if it was composed of only happiness #2 type people.


3. Beatitudo: (Beatitudo = happiness or blessedness). The happiness that comes from seeing the good in others and doing the good for others. It is, in essence, other-regarding action. Happiness #3 is, in some sense, at war with happiness #2. One cannot be at the same time in competition with someone else and doing the good for and seeing the good in them. Most people would prefer a world (community, family, relationships) structured around the pursuit of happiness #3 than entirely based in happiness #2. Happiness #3 is higher than happiness #2. The problem with #3 is that it is necessarily limited. We cannot be someone else's everything. For example, we or they, will die and if our happiness is contingent upon them, it dies with them. “There must be more than this.”


4. Sublime Beatitudo: (sublime = “to lift up or elevate”). This category, the most difficult to describe, encompasses a reach for fullness and perfection of happiness. The fullness, therefore, of goodness, beauty, truth and love. So we recognize in this category, those things that are, in a sense, beyond what we are capable of doing purely on our own.


Read more at: http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/apologetics/ap0016.html

Answer 3

People are happy when they are in a place they feel safe. People are happy when they're with people they trust and care about. People are happy doing nice things for other people even if they don't get an award. people are happy when they are thanked for helping someone, or when they are acknowledged for doing something heroic. personally I'm happy when I'm with my friends and family, or when I'm at church acknowledging my love for God. It makes me happy to put a smile on someone else's face. depending on who you are lots of things can make you happy. But what we should remeber is...what makes us happy does it make God happy too? If it does then your on the right track.

Answer 4

1. A sense of safety
2. Decent food
3. Not being picked on
4. A comfortable mattress
5. Being left alone when tired
6. Praise
7. Not coming in for the close up
8. Living within their means
9. Not being beholden to anyone or anything
10. Watching wars end sooner than later

Answer 5

Happyness is purely a stateof mind.It differs from person to person.When you link your happinees to some want and if your want is satisfied,you are happy and if vwant is not satisfied you are unhappy.Some people are happy when they have power.For some it is money,some sex.Secret of happiness is being content wit what you have.Do not compare with others.Limit your wants to your means.According to Buddha, if you reduce wants you become happier.True happiness is when you want nothing!!

Answer 6

Being around their family and loved ones, eating good food and telling old stories. Laughing and playing games. Fun times.

Answer 7

Talking to people who are genuinely friendly. Doing something to a high standard and knowing it.

Answer 8

Different strokes for different folks..
Happiness is a voluntary state of mind..
It is your decision...
You can decide to be happy or leave it to chance..

Answer 9

Everyone is different, but me personally am happy if everyone around me is....

If they are unhappy it makes me unhappy and I want to try to make them better

Answer 10

i like making ppl laugh or just helping a random stranger out. makes me feel a lot better & puts a smile on my face