what is the meaning of happiness?

Question

can it be measured by means of worth...or is it a state of mind ?????

Answer 1

Happiness can be measured in only one thing measured in love... Happiness is when you smile on the inside and out and you think man am I lucky........ Sex dose not count!

Answer 2

It is a state of mind. Really just a feeling of satisfaction for me. It is certainly an individual measurement that changes with the person and the time. Measure of worth may be a contributing factor for some people.

Answer 3

Happiness is based on circumstance... you're happy if good things are happening to you. It's impossible to be happy when bad things happen, because it's simply not the definition of happiness.

Happiness is partially based on a state of mind, too. Some people have good things happen to them, but they focus only on the bad things, which makes them unhappy overall.

Answer 4

just a state of mind. a person can be happy without a single penny in his bank account. a lot of people practically has everything they want except happiness.

Answer 5

you will never have enough worth, it is a state of mind of where you are in life

Answer 6

As a rhetorical phenomenon, happiness is the state of nothing being said, nothing needing to be said.

As a state of being, it's quietude.

Answer 7

definitely state of mind! happiness is wanting what you have, not looking for something that you think it will make you happy.

Answer 8

happiness is the ultimate satisfaction of immediate desires
the fewer your desires are, the easier they are to obtain, and the longer you are willing to wait for them, the happier you will be

Answer 9

I cannot answer that question for you. It is something each of us must answer within ourselves. But maybe these quotes might give you the insight you seek. Good luck.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.
— Henri Stendahl

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
— Eleanor Roosevelt

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness
— Spanish Proverb

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
— Roy M. Goodman

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
— Margaret Lee Runbeck

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
— Source Unknown

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.
— William Inge

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.
— G. K. Chesterton

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
— George Sand

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
— W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
— Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
— Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
— The 14th Dalai Lama

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
— Charles Kingsley

Enthusiasm moves the world.
— Arthur James Balfour

Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson. (1803-1882).

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
— Confucius

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
— Heraclitus, Greek philosopher (500 BCE)

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm
— Bruce Barton

Nothing great was ever achieved without great enthusiasm
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
— Albert Einstein

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
— Winston Churchill

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Nothing gives one person so much of an advantage over another as to remain unruffled in all circumstances.
— Thomas Jefferson

Do not dwell in the past, do not dwell in the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
— Buddha, [Siddhartha Gautama] (?563-?483 B.C.E.)

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to that which lies within us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
— Joseph Campbell, (1904-1987)

Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish but wish for everything to happen as it does happen, and your life will be serene.
— Stoicism.

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
— Hyman Judah Schachel

Success is to get what you want;
Happiness is to want what you get.
— Unknown

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, who is poor.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistles

Contentment makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
— Lao-tzu

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
— Socrates

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
— F. H. Bradley

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
— Vernon Howard

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
— Albert Camus

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
— Woody Allen

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
— Logan Persall Smith

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
— Frederick Koenig

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it's truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.
— Dennis Prager

Money can't bring you happiness, but it enables you to look for it in more places.
— Unknown

It is not the event itself that is important, but rather our reaction to that event. “Rather than altering the external world to bring it into line with one's desires, (one should) set those desires so that they are in line with the way the external world actually is.”
— Epictetus (55-135 A.D.; Stoicism)

Unhappiness = image – reality.
— Dennis Prager

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions & not on our circumstances.
— Martha Washington

One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.
— Mireille Guiliano

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
— Dale Carnegie

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
— William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
— Mary Engelbreit

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
— William James

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens
— Kahlil Gibran

A monk asks a superior if it is permissible to smoke while praying. The superior says certainly not. Next day the monk asks if it is permissible to pray while smoking. That, says the superior, is not merely permissible, it is admirable. The moral of the story is that much depends on how a thing is presented
— George Will

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
— Marcus Aurelius

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
— John Milton (1608-1674) [Paradise Lost]

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
— Viktor Frankl

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
— Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
— Count Leo Tolstoy

No man is happy who does not think himself so.
— Publilius Syrus, Maxims (100 BC)

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
— Abraham Lincoln

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.
— Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)

Grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change…
Courage to change the things I can
And Wisdom to know the difference…
— The Serenity prayer

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
— Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.
— Satchel Paige

Happiness is to see the world in a grain of sand,
and heaven in a wild flower,
to hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in a single hour.
— William Blake

We do not remember days, we remember moments.
— Casare Pavese

When I look at a patch of dandelions, I see a bunch of weeds that are going to take over my yard. My kids see flowers for Mom & blowing white stuff you can wish on.

When I hear music I love, I know I can’t carry a tune and don’t have much rhythm so I sit self-consciously and listen. My kids feel the beat and move to it. They sing out the words. If they don’t know them, they make up their own.

When I feel wind on my face, I brace myself against it. I feel it messing up my hair and pulling me back when I walk. My kids close their eyes, spread their arms and fly with it, until they fall to the ground laughing.

When I see a mud puddle I step around it. I see muddy shoes and dirty carpets. My kids sit in it. They see dams to build, rivers to cross and worms to play with.

I wonder if we are given kids to teach or to learn from. Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
— Antonio Smith

Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.
— Unknown

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
— Albert Einstein

There is more to life then increasing it’s speed
— Gandhi

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
— Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)