RN Online Poll: Are you Happy?

I have to admit, I am (sometimes) depressed). With that in mind, I seem to associate with other depressed people who can truly understand what being depressed is really all about. Today, I was speaking with a friend of mine on the phone and we were talking about the nature of happiness. As our conversation ended, and we both came to the general conclusion that happiness for most people, is, but alas, very elusive, and if experienced at all, is only experienced in rather brief, fleeting moments, I started to wonder if we were mistaken, and if happy people were truly happy all of the time?

In my quest to find out about happiness, I felt compelled to learn more about happiness, or lack-there-of it, from great philosophers who came before me. Here is what I found out about happiness:

Martha Washington:

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Helen Keller:

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

Mark Twain:

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

M. Ghandi:

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Ramona L. Anderson:

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.

So, do you know how to find happiness. Why not share your secret with the rest of us!