Can you define happiness? What makes you happy? What is happiness?
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IN LIFE YOU HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY IS IT MONEY IS IT FANCY CARS BIG HOUSES LOTS OF WOMEN/MEN OR IS IT THE SIMPLE THINGS OF LIFE WAKING UP EVERY MORNING SEEING YOUR KIDS YOUR PET OR JUST YOUR FAMILY YOU HAVE PEACE OF MIND IT ALL DEPENDS ON YOU AND HOW YOU WANT TO LIVE YOUR LIFE NOT HOW SOCIETY SAYS YOU NEED TO CATEGORIZE YOUR LIFE TO DECIDE IF YOUR TRULY HAPPY I ALL WAYS SAY (LIVE LIFE LAUGH LOVE AND LET LOVE) AND I AM HAPPY.
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It depends.  Happiness can be a choice most of the time, but there are always times when life just sucks and it is nearly impossible to "choose happiness".\n\nI'll give you an example, in 2001 this was my year.  February, Dale Earnhardtt died, my son was kicked out of his senior year of high school and his dad decided not to take him to alternative school, April, I found out my mom was going to die within the year and I had to fire over 140 people I had hired in the past year.  August, I quit my job to start my own company, September, of course 9/11 happened and then my husband decided he would rather sleep with his secretary than stay married to me.\n\nSo, as you can see, I kept trying to choose happiness, but first I had to get through my entire plate of s*** \n\nI think you can choose happiness on most days/years.  I think perpetually pesimistic people choose to see the world as bad and unfair.  But I also know that sometimes, happiness is not a choice.
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We are only happy if there is a possibilty to be sad. if we have everything, we have no reason to be sad, so we're not happy. but we forget that if we lose everything, we can be sad too. so be happy.
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Happiness Is living one's life the way he/she wants it! Living it the right way...and not wasting it on bad stuff...that's Total Happiness!! No Regrets!!
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Yikes, the fist answer was Ok but too in depth/formal, no offense meant to the answerer.\n\n   HAPPINESS has no strict definition. It is what it is and flows naturally, unforced.\n   It's relative to what your beliefs are, as to what causes joy in your own life or personal situations.\n   An example might be,,,I can be happy eating Coffee flavored Ice Cream, though not at all my favorite flavor, if I crave ice cream and no other flavor is available.\n\n   It is also possible to craft our own happiness based on likes, interests, feelings of what we most enjoy, or would like to explore.\n\nRev. Steven
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Primarily blissful pleasure\n\nProcreation if you feel like it.
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hey cutie pie,\ncommon the  best way to be happy is to be with life the wy it brings u and also have a good time tryin g to get new friends and sharing urself with someone.
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a happy, simple life. \nby simple i mean uncomplicated, not impoverished. life would be happy if all people work honestly and are paid honest and decent wages-- then everyone would be happy working.\nby simple i mean sustainable. a kind of life where you earn and are able to save some, for future generations like kids and grandkids. i don't like a hand-to-mouth existence.\nby happy i mean exactly that: happy. living in good terms with your neighbors and yourself, at peace with the thought that you don't physically hurt other people and no one would hurt you, too. emotional hurt is a different matter, but hey, it's life. we all need to grow.\nby reading this, i hope people realize that war, even among neighbors, simply leads to more destruction-- and that peace is possible if we all want it bad enough.
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Hmmm....well, being happy creates less stress on the body systems, which frees up energy for pursuing your goals, and life work. Also, happy people are much more tolerant and accepting of others than unhappy people, which is better for humanity as a whole.  Being happy isn't quite the same thing as being joyous.  Happiness, the kind that lasts, comes from a sense of things being right in your world, and in your life, which means you are living in harmony with your higher purpose, and this kind of happiness can't be ruined or taken away by circumstances.  It is a mind-set that sees possibilities in every situation, rather than judging each experience as either good or bad.
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I enjoy the happiness and concord of my family.(since I got married ).\nbecause of the feeling of taking care of and be taken care of.\nhoping my simple words can be understood.
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Happiness is sucess.  It is the driving force of all people, toward happiness and away from pain.
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that's a unsolved mystery. love is defined by many people i would say it is when you know what makes you happy in a relationship and the person is doing everything they can to come close to that. same goes for you if you are in a relationship think if you are doing everything to come close to make the person happy. but look inside and see if you love yourself and why.
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happiness comes from within not from sum1 else... =)
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Happiness is part of your perception. Think of all the things you are thankful for, all the things in life that make it special. True happiness is in thought, in feeling. No one and nothing will give that to you, you have to feel it for yourself.
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good ? i think true happiness is being contented with what u have. to have people around u that care for you and love u even when u mess up. it's going through life knowing that it may bring pain but your willing to live it at it's fullest anyways. its enjoying everything good that life brings and dealing with the bad things that it brings.
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do what makes you happy, enjoy life
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Some people are optimistic, that may equate to a general feeling of happiness.  I think people confuse happiness and optimism.  I personally don't know anyone that you would consider happy.  It's an illusion or denial.  I don't want to be happy, maybe a healthy pessimism.