What is Your Favourite Definition of Happiness?

What is the quintessential definition of happiness? Intent on finding happiness once more, I collected my own top favourite 8 happiness definitions on my happiness journey. Some are esoteric, others down to earth and practical.
True happiness comes from knowing what makes you happy.

Happiness is a thing of beauty and is uplifting. Which definition of happiness most closely resembles your ideal?

If flowers are not beautiful to you, then picture in your mind an image that will ultimately define happiness for you. You have the freedom to dream, to picture for yourself that happiness that will be yours.

Happiness is the dawn before the chorus - the quiet expectation that wonderful things will happen. Joy and sadness are equal partners and both have a place of recognition within the heart. Neither is more powerful than the other. They must co-exist like day and night. Cara

Happiness is an emotion in which one experiences feelings ranging from contentment and satisfaction to bliss and intense joy Wikipedia

You don't have to be ecstatically happy, but are you satisfied with your life, do you feel that you're growing and changing, do you get on well with other people, are you comfortable with yourself, do you have a purpose in life? Dr. Timothy Sharp - director of the Sydney-based Happiness Institute

Happiness is not our only emotion. It is the outlook we have chosen to cultivate becaue it is the most effective, thoughtful and productive. Author Unknown.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

When I was a small child I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong. Happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away Anna Pavlova. Russian ballet dancer (1818-1931)

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions. The little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment - countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feelings. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet

Happiness is a true state of mind, that you can have anytime, anywhere. Happiness comes from love, wholeness and peace. It is an inner state of being that comes naturally as you become connected with who you really are, your gifts and your purpose. Arielle Essex. from her book Compassionate Coaching

In pursuit of happiness? How will you recognise it when you have it?

Sure, check out somone else's Definition of Happiness, but does it resonate with you?

Can you feel the vibes as you read their words? Listen to your inner voice, what is it telling you?

Be clear about your own definition of happiness. Create your own and write it down.

Live up to your own ideals, not someone else's.

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