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What does happiness mean?

Is happiness a state of mind a faculty of being satisfied or is it an inspirational thing that gets into your mind soul body. Is it really a feeling that comes about by triggering the compound anandamide in the brain? Ananda in Sanskrit is happiness.


  • Happiness is in the mind

    Happiness is in the attitude of an individual. Eating chocolate is not going to make you happy as is thought to be scientifically proven. I will be happy if I think that I am happy. Satisfaction is not happiness..and then again happiness is not satisfaction..it is just a faction that makes you feel satisfied...

    50%  Voted for by shubs, nercrotic-freak.
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  • subjective
    i think that happiness is subjective. you are happy if you decide that you are happy. but is happiness really the most important thing? is it really that important at all? like i'm sick of people always telling me that i should be happy... sure happiness is cool and stuff, but sometimes i'd just rather not be... because a lot of the time you have to be ignorant to be happy ("ignorance is bliss..." - dumb philosophy, but a true philosophy)
    Voted for by opera ghostess.
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  • Americans Purse Happiness to an addictive degree
    Happiness is a feeling that has been given TOO much emphasis in American culture.

    HAPPINESS IS SUPERFICIALITY.

    Nothing wrong with superficiality. But there is something severely wrong if you want to reside there all the time. Superficiality is the evervescence of a glass of champagne. Yeah, it's nice and has its place in celebration and feeling "Happy" [ :-) ] but happiness is just the surface. Go deeper in meaning. The champagne is deeper. It has more taste. Go deeper. The celebration like a person reaching their 40th birthday and what it means to him/her. Go deeper. Remember all the bad/good memories that have helped you mature to become the wise person at 40.

    This is one of the primary faults of American popular culture which is why people in general are so FLAT. Happiness is two-dimensional which is where the popular culture resides.
    Voted for by Brew Kline.
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