to intense joy. A variety of biological
, psychological
, religious
, and philosophical
approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources.
Various research groups, including Positive psychology
, endeavor to apply the scientific method
to answer questions about what "happiness" is, and how we might attain it.
Philosophers and religious thinkers often define happiness in terms of living a good life
, or flourishing, rather than simply as an emotion.
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose."
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Happiness is not an island, but a hill.
I shall take the heart... for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.
The nicest Thing about being Happy is that You think You'll never be Unhappy Again