HAPPINESS IS? . . . reflections on felicity Les Brown: Happiness is living out your dreams. Shankara: Happiness is never what it actually seems. Mae West: Happiness is money ’n diamonds ’n fame. Buddha: Happiness is calmly accepting the inevitability of pain. Heinlein: Happiness is caring about others – not jus’ yersself. Jimi Hendrix: Happiness is an electric guitar ’n a yelp! Abe Lincoln: Happiness is a decision - a choice of how to be. Tim Leary: Happiness is transcending ordinary reality. William Reich: Happiness is warm, wet jizz. Sigmund Freud: Happiness is a balance between superego and id. Gandhi: Happiness is a unity of thought, speech, and deed. Dan Gilbert: Happiness is a futile as long as there is any “you” or “me”. Moses: Happiness is fulfilling God’s commands. Ed Glaeser: Happiness is overrated, can't you see? Will: One thing is clear: our society certainly has many conflicting messages about happiness. Wan-Sze: (nodding) Yeah. Believing that happiness is the primary reason for life is almost tragicomic. Nadia: Well, can life be reduced to any single “master narrative”? Kasim: (reflecting carefully) Some people believe so, but that belief carries a steep price. ===================================================================================== from How Weird: Out of the Box of Expectations by T Newfields Summary: Reflections by 18 different people about human happiness. Keywords: eudaimonia, quotes about happiness, reflections on joy, eudaimonic formulas Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?) Begun: 2016 in New Taipei, Taiwan ☆ Finished: 2019 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/HowWeird/wake.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/HowWeird/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/HowWeird/get.htm TRANSLATIONS ESPAÑOL https://www.tnewfields.info/es/felicidad.htm NIHONGO https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/shiawase.htm ZHŌNGWÉN https://www.tnewfields.info/zh/xingfu.htm