Pursuit Of Happiness: 6 Keys To Finding True Happiness
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Is happiness the journey or the destination?
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blue22d says:
It took me a long time to realize it was a journey. If we make it a destination - then what? It is more fun to enjoy a journey and enjoy every aspect of it as we travel along the way. Great lens. Thanks.
Posted June 21, 2009
Tuula_Olin says:
Definitely the journey. If you decide that you'll be happy if this or that happens in the future, the future is always away from now. You should try and be happy about things that you have now and then be happy on the journey to achieve the things you want.
Posted June 01, 2009
Ramkitten says:
At the end of my journal about a six-mo. (literal) journey, I wrote: Now that I'm finished, I'm trying to grasp the thought that I really did it at all. I mean, it almost doesn't seem real now. After only days off the trail, I almost feel like it was a dream. All I can say is, whatever it is you do ... make the most of and appreciate each day, because the days pass and things end, and it's like *poof* ... it's over. The memories are wonderful. So are the pictures. But the journey is the treasure.
Posted December 11, 2008
1stevedw says:
When you reach the destination, it's over. Then you start over again, heading to a new destination,...
Posted October 04, 2008
Destination
kajspice says:
In order to be happy, you must DECIDE to be happy...
Desire is the starting point for all suffering and misery.
Posted December 30, 2008
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What is happiness?
Happiness is a state of mind or feeling such as contentment, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy.[http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=35689&dict=CALD Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary] (accessed 2008-Dec-23) A variety of philosophical, religious, psychological and biological approaches have been taken to defining happiness and identifying its sources.
Philosophers and religious thinkers have often defined happiness in terms of living a good life, or flourishing, rather than simply as an emotion. Happiness in this older sense was used to translate the Greek Eudaimonia, and is still used in virtue ethics. In everyday speech today, however, terms such as well-being or quality of life are usually used to signify the classical meaning, and happiness usually refers to the felt experience or experiences that philosophers historically called pleasure.
While direct measurement of happiness presents challenges, tools such as The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire have been developed by researchers. Positive psychology researchers use theoretical models that include describing happiness as consisting of positive emotions and positive activities, or that describe three kinds of happiness: pleasure, engagement, and meaning.
Research has identified a number of attributes that correlate with happiness. These include relationships and social interaction, parenthood, marital status, religious involvement, age, income (but mainly up to the point where survival needs are met), and proximity to other happy people. Happiness economics suggests that measures of public happiness should be used to supplement more traditional economic measures when evaluating the success of public policy.
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Are you happy?
samsuccess wrote...
V. G. Lens! I consider myself to be happy 97% of the time. One wouldn't be human if happy 100%!
happiness_setpoint wrote...
You've put together a great lens here with some wonderful resources. Thanks for mentioning my book! When you get the chance, I'd love it if you'd drop by my lens and say hello.
poutine wrote...
I consider myself a very happy person and my happiness
comes from the little moments in life that I find here and there.
Graceonline wrote...
A friend of mine is reading one of the books you recommend above, Happy for No Reason, and finding it helpful in the midst of a terrible depression. It's not easy, in that state, to find a reason to feel happy, much less to dare to feel it. Your six steps hold the potential to help any of us kick-start our way from gloom and begin to feel the bloom of life on our cheeks again.
ElizabethJeanAllen wrote...
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