Happiness in Islam refers to both this world and the hereafter. Happiness in the hereafter is the ultimate goal of the believer, motivating him to strive for true happiness in this world. We will first examine the literal meaning of happiness in the...

A merchant’s happiness hangs upon chance, winds, and waves. (Japanese) All happiness is in the mind. (English) Calamities come because of accumulated evil; happiness comes as a blessing to the good. (Chinese) Happiness has many friends. (Roman)...

In Ed McBain’s short story A Very Merry Christmas a man who is feeling especially cheerful and optimistic offers to buy a stranger in a bar a drink. The man to whom the offer is made is highly suspicious, and thinks that a homosexual approach is...

(In P.Sukha, the opposite of Dukkha, q.v.). To the Bst. happiness is a by-product of right living, and never an end in itself. The sense of happiness and unhappiness are both transcended in the course of mind-development (Bhāvanā, q.v.)....

Joy, tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis (XIV century) Happiness is an emotion in which one experiences feelings ranging from contentment and satisfaction to bliss and intense joy. This definition is, however, a synoymous one. A more clarified one is...

It’s just after 4 am on a warm July morning and the black Corvair wagon, packed to the gunwales, is gleaming under the street lamp. Dad likes to get an early start so we can get across the George Washington Bridge well before rush hour...

At RealPeopleRatings.com, firms can find out what customers are thinking. Each quarter on the site, Corporate Research International asks 3,000 trained mystery shoppers to rank leading businesses' customer service on a scale of 1 to 10. According to Brad Holdgreve, vice president of sales for...

In 1998, Sativa Verte, a nude model and fetish entrepreneur, visited Manhattan for the first time. Her name then was Lisa, she was 13 years old, and she was on vacation with her grandparents from her hometown of Canfield, Ohio. It was a trip that...

For the increasing numbers of believers in the notion of a Clinton-Murdoch alliance, which The Observer suggested a few months ago, today was a big day. Rupert, famously dismissive of what he calls "gabfests" had agreed to join Time Warner's Richard Parsons and Sony's Howard...

A personal essay describing the meaning of happiness.

The following is a paper that describes happiness.

Is there a connection between material possessions and happiness? This question is examined in a book about life as a homeless person, an essay, and a study about the connection between possessions and experiences as it relates to happiness.