Definitions of Happiness / 'Gelukkig zijn, daarvoor wil ik alles geven' (Raymond Van het Groenewoud)

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/18-timeless-secrets-happy-people.html

You may be successful and wealthy, but you won’t find your life meaningful without happiness. What is happiness and why do we want to find the pursuit to it? Here are the definitions of happiness, take some time to absorb the meaning of it:

1. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama
2. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi
3. Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. – Dale Carnegie
4. Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens. - Andy Rooney
5. Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. - Joseph Wood Krutch
6. Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. - Leo Rosten
7. Happiness is not something you experience, it’s something you remember. - Oscar Levant
8. Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck
9. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. - Denis Waitley
10. Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. - Aristotle
11. Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. – John Barrymore
12. Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. - Don Marquis
13. Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. - Maxim Gorky
14. Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. – Eleanor Roosevelt
15. Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. – Bernard Meltzer
16. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. – Robert Green Ingresoll
17. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. - Jim Rohn
18. Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. - George Sheehan
19. Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. - Theodore Isaac Rubin
20. True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca