Success Happy

What do you define as true happiness? In what pursuits do you find true happiness?

What makes you truly blissful and happy? What makes you wish you could spend forever in that moment? Whether it be someone important or an activity or object you love, what brings you true happiness?

Public Comments

1. Amongst this that would help is enhance it is spiritual fulfillment, in my opinion.
2. I think that freedom does all that. When you're old enough to do whatever you want with no rules set by your parents. Cause usually, parents won't let you do something that they dont like, so by being an adult = free, you can do all that makes YOU happy that your parents.
3. Martial arts. Weather I just dropped someone with a liver shot or I am teaching, it makes all my problems seem to go away.
4. Over coming obstacles, setting attainable goals and achieving them, and seeing what other people have gone through. I'm a happy person because I know that I haven't been through half the things that some extremely less fortunate people go through on a daily basis. I have a roof over my head. I'm doing well in school. I'm in good health. I may have minor stressors every now and again but I'm alive and well and doing okay. There is nothing to really be sad about. I'm truly fortunate and I'm not going to take my life and opportunities for granted by complaining about materialistic things and immature/selfish people.
5. Having peace of mind. Having a deep understanding of things help you to attain that spiritual freedom. You get that inner feeling of calmness. And from the inner peace, happiness comes out of it. On the other hand, living in society if you have financial security you worry less about money. Then, you can focus on the things that matter and what you want to do. You only want money because of the freedom it will give you not because you desire money and the things it can buy.
6. It must be the economy, but so many people in the last few months have asked about what happiness is, how to make yourself happy, what makes or creates happiness, etc. etc. The world teaches you that: If you keep on buying things, if you can just GET things from it, including the love of others...somehow, these external things will "make you happy." Yet, you know from your experience that no matter what you have GOTTEN, no matter how much or from whom, none of it has made you constantly happy. So then, you go about trying to get "more of it," to see if that will satsify your need...more and more and more. Until your house is filled with all kinds of junk, you bank accounts are overflowing with money, and you go through multiple love relationships, over and over again...right? And yet, NONE of that has made you "happy." Not for long, at least - until the compulsion to GO GET MORE happens. So all of your experience in life is really telling you ONE THING...having THINGS, including money, power, glory, fame, and most of all, the love of another or others...none of those things makes you permanently "happy." Yet you have met people who seem to be very happy, they are always cheerful...as if their life is fulfilled and they need nothing. They are never a bother, they cause no trouble, they ask for nothing, they demand nothing and they have no expectations...they just simply seem to be happy walking through life. And you ask yourself - "How do they do it?" "What is their SECRET?" "Why am I not happy like they are?" Or you ask yourself - "Why is it that no matter how much I live up to the expectations of others, I work hard, I play straight and yet all I get for it is more misery!" WHAT IS THE BIG SECRET!???????? I am gonna tell you the BIG SECRET.... The secret is....(are you listening closely now?..........................................That what really makes you happy or anyone else, is their DECISION TO BE HAPPY. Yes! Happiness is a personal CHOICE. It is a decision on your part to be that way. Happiness comes from WITHIN, not from outside of you. It cannot be gotten with any worldly thing. Even Jesus knew the answer - Seek Ye First the Kingdom of Heaven." I don't mean to put the answer into religious context, but what he ment was, that all the happiness and joy in life is resides right there INSIDE OF YOU. Therefore, if you want happiness, go within yourself. Choose to be happy and then you will be happy. That is what is meant by seeking the kingdom of heaven. Heaven is not a place "out there" some where. Heaven is your internal state of BEING. If you knew who and what you really are, you wouldn't have asked this question because you would already know the answer! So, making happiness happen is not just a matter of choice, it is also a matter of understanding WHO IT IS that YOU REALLY ARE! It is also an understanding of your native and natural personality, your true state of BEING. That state is LOVE. I bet you didn't know that. But everything in your life has told you, "I really am a good person. I really am a loving person...if only the world would know me as I AM!" I bet more than 90% of all human beings know they are "GOOD" inside themselves. The other ten percent are still in the state of even understanding that part. And your true desire all along, has been to EXPERIENCE yourself as being good, worthy, loving. Yet if you do not accept yourself being those things, you cannot get to real happiness. It is the frustration with trying to make the WORLD see YOU as YOU see YOURSELF. That is what creates all the anger, depresssion, frustration and violence in life...the striving to get other people to know you as you know your true self to be. First, and foremost - Accept that you are good, worthy and loving. Second, because you are that, then decide to BE that. Then, choose to understand, life is not about what you GET OUT OF IT, life is all about WHAT YOU PUT INTO IT. Therefore, do not strive to seek happiness from exterior things. Look for all your happiness within you by accepting and practicing your goodness. When you do this, you choose to be HAPPY. And then...the world comes to know you for what you want it to know you as. The answer to your question is simply - CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY.
7. I don't think that there is such a thing as true happiness. IF there is then I haven't found it. Happiness comes and stays for a while, and then it goes. It's ever elusive. I think people trick themselves into believing they are truly happy. I wish someone could prove me wrong with this, but I don't believe in 'true happiness.' Maybe some day my mind will change about this, but Looking at it from another angle though--- in it's most traditional sense. The pursuit of happiness for some has been: fulfilling work, getting an education, having positive experiences,being loved, feeling loved, spirituality, making money, having security, having kids, a car, a house and all that stuff.
8. whos to say what tru happiness is? its different for everyone. I think its the point that you no longer want anthing more.
9. Happiness is an attitude. You have confused happiness with the emotions of joy or pleasure like many people. When you say happy you are describing an attitude not an emotion. What you are really asking is, "What pursuits give you joy or pleasure?"; implying that it will cause your attitude to be happy since those emotions are pleasurable. To be consistently happy you must be content which is the condition of continual, mild pleasure. It is also a condition which only exists intermittently in practice since we all experience episodes of sadness before our positive attitude reasserts itself and we are at least content. Many things bring me contentment and a few bring me joy but even fewer bring me great pleasure. I'm not very hedonistic.
10. True happiness is different for each person. No two people are exactly the same and a person's happiness changes from one person to the next. I don't know about the truly blissful & happy. I do know that at one time in my life I wanted to stay in that moment because I loved him & I didn't want the moment to end out of fear we both would never be that close ever again. The moment ended & our moment ended forever. The moment being our relationship.