Do you think happiness is "found" or "made"?
I have been with my husband for 13 years, married for over 8 years. Since marriage and/or children have no instruction manuals, sometimes it can be a struggle. I feel I have "found" happiness in my life, BUT I must work at keeping it happy, therefore the answer to my question would be both "found" and "made." Right?
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8 comments:
Correct. Happiness is generally found,however one must work to keep it that way.I have been married 34 years { to the same woman}and held the same job for 33years.Have I found happiness or am I just nuts???
Happiness is something that you must work at, therefore it's made. All your life choices are your own. You may find something that makes you happy, but it is a choice whether to embrace that or move aside because you're scared to take that chance. Life is what you make of it.
I agree with SUNNY.
Happiness is something you must work at. My grandmother, one of the oldest living citizens of Salisbury at 97 years old tells me you reap what you sow.
My husband and I have been married for 26 years and have had some tough times but we made lemonade out of lemons. Each adversity is another learning experience. Happiness is not the biggest house, flashiest car or buffest body. Happiness is a general sense of wellbeing and contentment.
My husand and I will celebrate our 50th anniversary this June. We don't agree on lots of things and that is what has made life interesting for us. Obviously we agreed on many things that were really important to us or we would have divorced the first year. We never really get into heavy arguements or ever went to bed "not speaking"! We never hold a grudge. That is bad for anyone. When I look back, sometimes I wonder why we stayed together, but after 50 years I know it was because HE is a kind and caring wonderful family oriented man who puts up with me and we both recognized that no one is perfect.We were obvious opposites who were attracted to each other and made it work. We have a wonderful family and many friends of all ages. Life is good~ unless you choose to make it otherwise. As my son said, when life gives you lemons, make Lemonade. I wouldn't trade one day with anyone or for anyone else.
Some people will never be happy.
They always look at the negative side of anything.I'm happy just to wake up each morning , ain't it
great.Shannie is not a very happy person , this is a good example.
Garry is also unhappy , matter of fact , Barrie and that old lady
on the council are very unhappy.
34 years here and I say happiness is like art you have to make it to find it.
A few wonderful quotes on Happiness:
Happiness is a virtue, which only forms itself in the willing.
Anonymous
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
William Shakespeare
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
"Most people measure their happiness in terms of physical pleasure and material possession. Could they win some visible goal which they have set on the horizon, how happy they could be! Lacking this gift or that circumstance, they would be miserable. If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep. If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life, — if, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing." ~
Helen Keller in Optimism (1903)
We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
-Dalai Lama
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