Happiness | Filed under General
Have you ever found yourself asking what is happiness, am I happy? I imagine you have at some point in your life most people have and that happens to be something most share in common a desire to be happy. We all know or should know that happiness is obtainable, and I will share with you things that is a very telling. Ask yourself if you don’t have everything in your life that can make you happy, and then ask yourself if you’re happy. Look at yourself through the eyes of someone who doesn’t have what you have–material goods, health, intelligence, ability, creativity–and hear that person telling you, “i would be so happy if i had only a part of what you have.”
and don’t answer, “yes, but. . .” answer, “you’re right–i do have many gifts. I’ll try to be happy with them.”
Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?
William Lyon Phelps
Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
John Barrymore
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. . . . When we lack proper time
for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human
and heart-hungry luxuries.
Ed Hays
It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness.
With sadness there is something to rub against,
a wound to tend with lotion and cloth.
When the world falls in around you, you have pieces to pick up,
something to hold in your hands,
like ticket stubs or change.
But happiness floats.
It doesn’t need you to hold it down.
It doesn’t need anything.
Happiness lands on the roof of the next house, singing,
and disappears when it wants to.
You are happy either way.
Even the fact that you once lived in a peaceful tree house
and now live over a quarry of noise and dust
cannot make you unhappy.
Everything has a life of its own, it too could
wake up filled with possibilities
of coffee cake and ripe peaches,
and love even the floor which needs to be swept,
the soiled linens and scratched records. . .
Since there is no place large enough
to contain so much happiness,
you shrug, you raise your hands,
and it flows out of you
into everything you touch. You are not responsible.
You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit for the moon,
but continues to hold it, and share it, and in that way, be known.
Naomi Shihab Nye
from “So Much Happiness”
What brings you happiness, if you are not happy what will bring you happiness? Share with me and just maybe you will soon be saying Life Is Simply Good.
April 26th, 2005 at 12:19 pm
MUSIC. Listening, singing, writing, composing, singing, learning. Music equals happiness.
AND my two beautiful children
Anything else is either a bonus or fluff.
April 26th, 2005 at 3:15 pm
Happiness comes in so many different ways, and has different levels of happiness. I like the quotes and what you said. Very true.
*HUGS*
April 26th, 2005 at 4:28 pm
I like what Thomas Jefferson had to say - he hit the nail on the head. Now, I can tell you, I was NOT happy living in that “quarry” over noise when in the condo. I couldn’t hear myself think! And, another thing, while we’re at it; people like you who bring smiles and sunshine into my life, make me very happy!
April 26th, 2005 at 5:34 pm
Thanks for sharing the quotes. Happiness for me comes many different ways. Having my hubby home on a day off.. and going out for breakfast. Getting my back rubbed before I fall asleep. Too, many to list !! :thumbsup::yes:
*Hugs*:heart:
April 26th, 2005 at 7:58 pm
Hi dawlin!! check your email at bellsouth net, I got a surprise for ya!! if you don’t get the email let me know please?
and btw, i’m always one happy critter, and coming by here just magnifys the effect!! hehe *smooch*~!
April 26th, 2005 at 9:37 pm
Loving this latest skin. . .that makes me happy
Spring makes me happy. Watching my puppy have fun makes me happy. Wearing size 12 pants makes me happy. Having an organized kitchen makes me happy. New books to read makes me happy.
I’m pretty easy to please. I like it like that.
April 26th, 2005 at 9:58 pm
Happiness is knowing all three of my children are on American soil, meaning the oldest is home from Iraq. Happiness is writing. Happiness is knowing that my special friend really “gets” me.
April 26th, 2005 at 10:06 pm
Happiness is a simple gift we are given from the way we were raised. I was raised to celebrate what I had in my plate, not to complain about how little there was on it. It’s the greatest gift we are given from those who raise us, because it matters not how rich, how beautiful, how wonderful, how successful, how anything. If you’re not taught to celebrate that which you have, you’ll never have enough.
April 27th, 2005 at 7:16 am
Waking up in the morning, breathing in and out, makes me happy. Watching new born calves, colts, lambs, cavorting in field; puppy breath: a memory of loved one: the smile on the face of a friend or family member if I surprise them with an act, deed, or gift; sunsets at the ocean; wild storms raging across the ocean; travelling; the sound of the wind through a stand of pines; being comfy in at home on a day of inclement weather; my car starting right up; all these things and so many more make me happy. All I have to do is think it, reach for it, and happiness is mine.