Is there an absoloute definition of happiness? If yes, what is it?

Question

(Please don't give similies and analogies, thanks)

Answer 1

as we all know different things make different people happy - so no there is no specific definition of happiness - it is the complete joy of oneself ~ happiness

if you happiness is hard to define, try defining love :)

Answer 2

Sharing the sorrows of others and with your little efforts, making one comfortable and confident is called happiness.

Be Happy!

Answer 3

Well, happiness is when you are in a moment that you never want to end. It makes you smile and feel good.

Happiness is looking into the person you love's eyes.

Happiness is feeling like you are on top of the world.

Youll know happiness. :)

Answer 4

I guess this isn't an absolute definition, but being totally comfortable with someone you love almost always equals total happiness.

For me, being with my boyfriend = happiness.

Answer 5

Absolute is a rather tall order, however Happiness describes that moment when the reality that you are experiencing comes very close to your ideal reality, and you are in such a state of mind to exist only in that moment.

Answer 6

HAHAHA.....

Answer 7

Happiness is the state of mind that occurs when one achieves or maintains his/her values.

Answer 8

Happiness is within yourself. It depends on how you take things. Be optimistic and you will  see the real happiness.

Answer 9

"Happiness" is, first, a physical emotion.

But you do not have to accept that you are happy even if you feel the emotion.

"Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values." Ayn Rand

Many people achieve their values, only to discover the were wrong in their evaluation of the meaning of that value.

For example, a man wants to be a millionaire by the time he is 25. He achieves it. But in the midst of the swirlling happiness he feels, there is also a sense of perhaps aloneness, or of having thrown other values to the wind to achieve his value of being a millionaire. He will have realized his values were the wrong ones (if he does not like how he gained the money. Maybe he had to lose a lonely wife.)

So, happiness is a chemical reaction, just like any other emotion. But it is one we can either accept because we earned our happiness by achieving goals that were right for us; or we can reject it because we cannot accept the price we paid to achieve our "values."

Answer 10

Being possessed by a good demon (or spirit, what-have-you).

Answer 11

Yes. The Truth.

Answer 12

A teacher in my school once sucintly said it and i repeat it here.

"Control mind ,live happily"

Answer 13

A state of mind resulting in the perception of well being.

Answer 14

Repeated likable experiences= Happiness

But Its different from bliss

Answer 15

Happiness is peace with yourself, peace with your fellow man and peace with God.  Thankfully I have all 3.  I have a great wife, the best daughter in the world, a job I love and a God who loves me. I couldn't ask for anything more.

Answer 16

There are many...not one of them is the all knowing, end all answer though.

Aristotle taught that happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue and follows a rational principle. Epicurus thought that happiness was pleasure.

Me? Happiness is a state of being in acceptance of yourself.

Take any definition you like, all that matters is that you accept it.

Answer 17

In simple terms, happiness is a state of mind that remains unruffled by either exciting or depressing events whether recalled from the past or experienced in the present or foreseen for the future. In other words, the mind must attain an independently stable balance of tranquility.