Essays on Happiness

What is the first thing you do when something amazing happens to you? You immediately let share the good news to someone important to you. Then what do you do when something upsetting happens? Hopefully, you reach out to others and seek support from others….

You may have heard people say that money is not the secret to happiness. Well, if money is not the secret to happiness, then what is. We live in a society that is obsessed with being happy. We are constantly surrounded by happy smiling faces…

The first examination of happiness gave satisfaction to a pleasant life, characterized by a majority of positive emotions, joy over sadness and a predominance of an optimistic mood compared to bad mood. This vision of happiness did not effectively explain people’s lives, as nearly 50%…

Introduction The characters in Dickens’s famous, rather long and complex novel Bleak House, are all looking for happiness in their short and precious lives, just as all people do, both fictional and real. Everyone in their right mind wants to achieve ultimate happiness, being satisfied…

I agree with Aristotle’s argument that living a virtuous life is essential to having true happiness which is our ultimate purpose.In other words, happiness is the primary purpose of human life which is accomplished or fulfilled through virtue. Similarly, he believes that in order to…

Some philosophers argue that introspection is infallible. Is it possible to be mistaken about how happy I am presently feeling?Indirect measurement is one of the two methods used to measure people’s level of happiness. The most commonly used indirect measure of happiness is self-reporting, also…

American’s have become so materialistic that they have lost touch with what really matters in life. Understanding why we think the more stuff we acquire, the happier we will be is truly puzzling. We work long hours to not only pay for the essential things…

While ancient Greece brought forth a variety of influential contributions to the western civilizations, one of its most notable donations was the philosophy. Ideas of in which we think about the world, universe and society were up-roared within these ancient times. It was during this…

As much as it is precious to us and how we wish we had more of it, everything needs time. Whether it’s in relation to something growing, healing, or strengthening, time is the only variable in our lives that will never change. “You must never…

For years humanity has held on to the notion that life is merely a journey whose ultimate destination is death. On a lighter note, there is the infamous expression that goes ‘life is so brutal that no one gets out of it alive.’ Besides the…