Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.
Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.