1. HAPPINESS
pleasure, joy, delight, enjoyment, satisfaction. contentment, elation,
light heartedness, gaiety, jubilation, ecstasy. bliss
What is happiness?
An Emotion?
A feeling? –a state of well being

2. Happiness, Satisfaction, Contentment
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of it . It is generally the
by-product of other activities.” Aldous Huxley
Fleeting or ephemeral
Long-lasting or Abiding

3. What gives you a sense of happiness?
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your
thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.” Marcus Aurelius
 Food

4.  Clothes and jewels

5.  Money

6.  Name and fame

7. A good job ? High salary?

8. Kinds of Happiness
“There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that
person is you.” David Burns, Intimate Connections
 Physical
 Mental/Intellectual
 Spiritual

9. State of happiness
“Happiness depends more on the inward
disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”
Benjamin Franklin
 Internal
 External

10. Can Happiness be purchased?
.
Happiness lies within you
 Through studies
 Through work –fulfillment
 Through nonattachment

11. The right attitude
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air,
drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself
to the influences of each. ” Henry David Thoreau
 Learn to take life as it comes.
 Learn to be contented

12. Happiness is a state of mind
“Don’t waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself
on the work before you, well assured that the right
performance of this hour’s duties will be the best
preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.” Ralph
Waldo Emerson
 Total surrender and renunciation
 Ecstasy
 Bliss

13. The true meaning of happiness
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look
so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been
opened up for us” -Hellen Keller
Let’s live each day and each moment with a sense of peace and fulfillment