Describe happiness?

Answer 1

Happiness is a warm puppy, of course!

Answer 2

Knowing and feeling that you have reached the highest and most praised point for your existance. When you are a kid you feel happiness when you get a toy because at the moment only toys matter to you. As you grow, happiness comes in other ways. For example, when you grow up, happiness is finding that person to spend the rest of your life with. Happiness comes when you feel complete and nothing much really matters. Happiness can be an instant, like going on an anticipated trip, or it can be perpetual like being grateful you live and have food. Material things don't actually give happiness in my opinion. Happiness comes through being with other people and enjoying life and being happy with them. That is when material things come in handy, to use them to share with others. It is boring to play video games or watch a movie alone. You need someone to discuss those things and laugh or get scared. Toys are meant to be given to children so that they can be happy. Happiness to me is conviving with other people and sharing with them. If you werestranded on an island you wouldn't ant an xbox or ipod, you would want another person with you. Make someone happy and you will be happy.

Answer 3

An emotional or affective state that is characterized by feelings of enjoyment and satisfaction.

Many ethicists make arguments for how humans should behave, either individually or collectively, based on the resulting happiness of such behavior. Utilitarians, such as John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham, advocated the greatest happiness principle as a guide for ethical behavior.

For Aristotle, happiness is "the virtuous activity of the soul in accordance with reason": happiness is the practice of virtue.

Societies, religions, and individuals have various views on the nature of happiness and how to pursue it. Western society takes its concept of happiness, at least in part, from the Greek concept of Eudaimonia. It is a classical Greek word commonly translated as 'happiness'. Etymologically, it consists of the word "eu" ("good" or "well being") and "daimōn" ("spirit" or "minor deity", used by extension to mean one's lot or fortune).

Buddha is probably the earliest recorded thinker to discuss the role of the mind in the pursuit of happiness, including the psychological origins of mental dysfunction, and positive interventions to remove such dysfunction through the practice of the eightfold path, and especially mindfulness and concentration. According to Buddha,"Mind is the forerunner of states of existence. Mind is chief, and (those states) are caused by the mind. If one speaks and acts with a pure mind, surely happiness will follow like one's own shadow!".

The Chinese Confucian thinker Mencius, who 2300 years ago sought to give advice to the ruthless political leaders of the warring states period, could well be the second figure to ponder over the psychological roots of happiness. Mencius was convinced that the mind played a mediating role between the "lesser self" (the physiological self) and the "greater self" (the moral self) and that getting the priorities right between these two would lead to sagehood...

According to Kierkegaard, happiness is the consequence of god's love that allows love between human beings... Even if god does not exist, our faith is enough to love and to feel loved, and this way to think and to feel is a source of happiness. Interesting theory!

Answer 4

Total bliss. There's a song that says that "happiness is different things to different people". So the object, person or event that brings us happinness may differ, but the feeling of rapture is the same for all.

Answer 5

Happiness can't be described in words.It is an intangible emotion out side the realms of description.

Answer 6

I am depressed so I think that happiness is the delusional state in which someone believes that life and other people are good.

Answer 7

Happiness is as happiness does

Answer 8

Chicken Madras with pilau rice and lime pickle. Two poppadoms and a pint of cold Carlsberg Export lager. Opposite me she is sitting, and I watch her as she eats. If I am not careful my curry will get cold!

Answer 9

Happiness is something that is known best, or missed badly, when we are unhappy, or sad at most; something that when is present in our life we often know it as our own proper self.

Answer 10

True Happiness happens whenever we are not judging anything.

Any time that you are not judging you are happy.

The moment that you start judging, you find something to be unhappy about.

It really is that simple.

Love and blessings Don