The Way To Happiness

The Way To Happiness

1. Keep your heart free from hatred
2. Keep your mind free from worry
3. Live Simply
4. Expect little
5. Give much
   
   Happiness is not found in seeking more but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
   
   

WHAT IS HAPPINESS?

According to Webster’s Third New International Dictionary’, happiness is a state of well-being characterized by relative permanence, by dominantly agreeable emotion ranging in value from mere contentment to deep and intense joy in living, and by a natural desire for its continuation. "In the distinction between this term and its synonyms (i.e., felicity, beatitude, blessedness, bliss), it defines HAPPINESS" as the general term denoting enjoyment of or pleasure able satisfaction in well-being, security, or fulfillment of wishes.

Some students of education and psychology define HAPPINESS as the continued feeling or state of delight, contentment, and joy emanating from the permanent sense of self-goodness, goodness of life and goodness of man’s destiny.

Different individuals and groups of people may have different ideas with regard to the best ways of achieving happiness. However, there are several theories and speculations which many a people share as constituting the main sources of happiness. These may be classified as follows:
(1) Wealth
(2) Rank and position.
(3) Educational achievements (Academic and Honorary Degrees).
(4) Fame (i.e., in politics, arts, sports, science, etc.).

Wealth is, probably, the element mostly associated, if not synonymous, with happiness as many people think. This understanding so deeprooted in the hearts of so many, to the extent that almost everywhere people are engrossed in the acquisition of wealth. They look towards wealth as the primal constituent of happiness to the point that for them the two are entwined.
How happy are those men and women who own business empires, wide expanses of land and estates, large bank deposits, etc?

Many indeed are those people who own millions or even billions but are suffering from an almost permanent lack of peace of mind as a result of the fear they have over their wealth the fear of, say, political turmoils, market movements, wars, plunders, theft, etc. And not only does such fear lead to sleepless nights for these people but even tensions, mental anguish, heart attacks and deaths. You can see the example of Christina Onasis, Ferdinand Marcos, Nicolae Ceausescu and etc. Rich but unhappy!. So guys happiness is very subjective and depending on the individuals. Be happy of yourselves.