true happiness? true happiness is smiling when you have no particular reason. it's love, it's full pledged faith, it's confirmed hope. true happiness is the complete absense of worry, and of doubt. it is total comfort, often in friendships, families, and relationships. true happiness is in the friendships that you never forget. it can be created, but never destroyed, only masked or hidden. true happiness lies within us all, and it is up to us to recognize it.
To me, happiness is knowing that no matter what happens, one of your friends has a story to top it. Or, maybe not. Without getting too involved in this thought, mostly because I have a paper due tomorrow at 11 am, happiness is being able to stop, look at life and realize that everything is the way it should be. Because for every climax in life where nothing good can happen, there's always another chapter to sort out the conflict and restore that comfortable balance we're all used to.
You know, life and happiness are gifts. We are here to understand their meaning. I believe that these two gifts together create love. We are given the opportunity to feel and experience the power happiness, life, and love possesses.
As human beings, we were given life to see the beauty in all living things...to become one with our surroundings.
We have freewill to understand our emotions and our feelings. To learn how to control them. To experience how each different emotion can cause certain things to happen to us, for better or worse.
I have attempted to understand happiness. This feeling is one of the hardest and most powerful ever, and it is not the easiest to hold on to. Once you experience true happiness though, you can almost see the future. Things are clearer and your thinking is better. You are overcome with a great sense of trust, faith, and hope.
You become one with yourself and everything around you.
You know, it's funny, I just had to write a five page paper on this last night! It was for my Philosophy and the ethical life class, a paper where we had to put the whole "Plato's Republic" and the whole "Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics" into one thing, so I thought I'd share what Aristotle said, then put in my two bits. Aristotle: "Happiness is the activity of the soul according to virtue throughout life." This includes happiness gained through ethical virtues like generosity, courage, and justice, and intellectual virtues like prudence and wisdom. The highest form of happiness in this life is in contemplative activity. St. Thomas Aquinas later picked up on this and showed how this is really praying to God. However, Aristotle would also say that you can get happiness just in everyday activities, like ethical virtues; just doing the right thing in your dayly life
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As human beings, we were given life to see the beauty in all living things...to become one with our surroundings.
We have freewill to understand our emotions and our feelings. To learn how to control them. To experience how each different emotion can cause certain things to happen to us, for better or worse.
I have attempted to understand happiness. This feeling is one of the hardest and most powerful ever, and it is not the easiest to hold on to. Once you experience true happiness though, you can almost see the future. Things are clearer and your thinking is better. You are overcome with a great sense of trust, faith, and hope.
You become one with yourself and everything around you.
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