Happiness is the longing for repetition.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Happiness seems made to be shared.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.