Happiness

What is happiness? How to make normal life more fulfilling? I’ve been asked this question by many people, and I researched this subject for a few years.

My conclusion: Happiness means different things to different people, every individual has their own definition of what makes them happy.

Here are the definitions of happiness as defined by professors, philosophers, researchers, and world leader. Take some time to absorb the meaning of it, and make your own conclusions:

• Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
  – Leo Rosten
• Happiness is the joy we feel striving for our potential.
  – Shawn Achor
• Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
  – Theodore Isaac Rubin Seneca
• Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
  – George SheehanRubin Seneca
• Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
  – Margaret Lee Runbeck
• Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
  – Denis Waitley
• Happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
  – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
  – Dalai Lama
• Happiness is when: what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
  – Mahatma Gandhi
• Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
  – Ayn Rand