"There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things that do not depend on you."

Happy man is the one who masters both labor and love. - Sigmund Freud

We run happily ever after, either by sea or by land, but happiness is here almost. - Quintul Horatius Flaccus

If happiness would consist of body pleasures, we would say that the oxen are happy when they find food. - Heraclitus of Ephesus

For us, happiness is an error. - Marcel Proust

The secret of happiness is to make others believe that they are the cause of happiness. - Al Batt

Most times, what we call happiness is what we do not know. - Anatole France

Happiness is that state of consciousness generated by the realization of its own values. - Ayn Rand

There is no happiness you can remember without sadness. - Octavian Paler

When a door of happiness closes, another discovers; But we often watch so much at the closed door that we do not see the one that opened for us. - Helen Adams Keller

Constitution just gives people the right to happiness. You have to find it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin

When others think you happy and you think you are not, get along! - Raymond Ruyer

Happiness is something that never touches ... but in search of it, it's worthwhile to run all your life. - Unknown
Happiness is nothing but good health and bad memory. - Albert Schweitzer

The secret of happiness is not to do what you like, but to enjoy what you need to do. - James Matthew Barrie

You have to laugh before you are happy, for fear you will die without ever laughing. - Jean de la Bruyere

People choose different paths in search of accomplishment and happiness. If you are not on your way, it does not mean they've lost. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If you want to get happiness, then put yourself as a target, only one not: happiness. - L. Blaga

How do you swallow an elephant, like happiness? Cutting it into small pieces. - Unknown

Happiness depends on us. - Aristotle

Some produce happiness wherever they go; Others go anytime. - Oscar Wilde
The discovery of a new kind of food causes a man more happiness than the discovery of a new star. - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The happiness of a man is not lack of desires, but in their perfect knowledge. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

The basic components of happiness are: to do something, to love someone and to hope for something. - Allan K. Chalmers

The sense of humor is one of the best clothes that someone can wear in society. - William Makepeace Thackeray

Nobody cares if you're sad, so you could just as well be happy. - Cynthia Nelms

The best way to invest is to try and explore someone else. - Mark Twain

I do not have money, resources, hopes. I am the happiest man alive. - Henry Miller

Happiness is not a destination. It's a way of living. - Burton Hills

It's hard to define happiness ... When you think about it, you imagine a state of bliss and euphoria, a physical and psychological magic, a harmony with yourself and others. Instead, it is very difficult to find words that are appropriate to describe this state as a whole, which we often live in fragmentation.
No other feeling is as comprehensive as happiness: it can at the same time reassemble you and let you down.

Denis de Rougemont says happiness is not about "having," but about "being"; It can not be bought, felt, because it is a state that you must let go of. Happiness comes from the soul, from within. You can be happy in many ways and for many reasons. You can be happy, thanks a little, you can have a dizzying and sweet happiness in the eyes of others, and you do not believe yourself standing unjustly ... Or you can only be happy, but in your soul be happy.

The philosophers, in their marriage, turned the concept on all sides and tried an explanation. Of course, the subject is vast. From my lectures, however, I can draw a conclusion.

At Nietzsche, things are clear: it reduces happiness to the dionysical background of existence, in which Being is life, and life is the will of power with its immediate consequences: genius and superman. As pretentious as we know him, Nietzsche-the philosopher of combining the ecstatic with the appearance-accepted that happiness did not ignore the suffering of becoming. Here I agreed with him, I felt him deprived of the frustrations of Ciorani.

At Aristotle, happiness is rational activity, desirable in itself. This idea seems to me the closest to my conception.

John Stuart Mill concludes that happiness is the harmony of quantity and quality of pleasure, and Kant says it sophisticated and complicated (like all his work!) That happiness is an unrealistic hope for people, but they can be "worthy of happiness" by rational self-determination.

At St. Augustine, the idea of ​​happiness is closely related to God. He described happiness as an escape from time, as an acquisition of the "permanent good". The only way to save the ephemeral of sensitive things is to have God by faith. At the same time, the philosopher leans on the soul, because the ipsum esse (the being itself) lives in my intimacy. And here I subscribe.

If I were to remember Cioran and give him his opinions, I would need a whole essay. To him, unhappiness is just a possibility of perceiving existence. If, in the relationship with Nietzsche, we appear to be an infamous titan, Cioran seems closer to Heidegger, without his impressive solemnity.

Finally ... maybe the most convincing was Sophocles, according to which happiness is a feeling, a conscious emotion ... "It is happy that he knows he is happy!"

Psychologists, however, more pragmatic and understanding, in their research have gathered some forgotten ingredients that could especially parfume our dream of happiness.

As American psychologist Robert Misrahi, the author of the book, says 100 words to build your happiness, "it's essential to get to the feeling that our life has a sense of preponderance in joy. Happiness means self-fulfillment, access to self-consent, and the joy of being, that is, the pleasure of living and being born in this world. "

An American psychologist, Marion Rudnitcki, believes that happiness is woven from microscopic moments we need to become aware of. "There are those moments when we feel we live more intense than usual. We need to know how to look, to feel, to be present "

Sonja Lyubomirski, a psychologist at the University of California, has a different conception of happiness. It can come, just "calling it". So she asked the subjects to lay down the ideas and wishes of the future on the paper, thus repeated objective thoughts can bring to mind the best perception of one's own person.

Most people who call for a psychologist or unhappiness.
I hate to give advice, but I can recommend some strategies of happiness:

• Avoid negative people.
• Give beautiful words.
• Do not take everything in tragic.
• Claim less of the world and more from you
• Glimpse your life.
• Be the best.
• Live the moment.
• Accept your age.
• Feed well.
• Surround yourself with quality people.
• Find a job you can do with pleasure.
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