### feeling | emotion:

Happiness
* also comes from the decisions one makes
  - reflects our perception of the harmony and functioning of the external world
  - requires a minimal amount of external goods
* appears to have a protective effect when it comes to health.
* begins where selfishness ends.
* binds parent and baby and fosters the infant's developing competence.
* by-product of an effort to make someone else happy
  - assurance of salvation
  - the ardent fervor of our spirits
* byproduct of doing a few simple things right in our lives
  - the right thing
  - helping others and leading a meaningful life
* can vanish in the blink of an eye.
* candle burning in the night.
* causes a desire to fiddles
  - play games
  - laughter
  - tears
* choice at every moment
  - that requires effort at times
* choice, a decision, an infinite number of actions taken with joy.
* clear conscience, unsullied by the reproach or remembrance of an unworthy action.
* comes as a result of doing.
* comes from acquiring knowledge and ultimately wisdom
  - awareness of our needs and responsibilities and choosing appropriate behavior
  - choosing which to remember
  - counting blessings
  - giving away and sharing
  - opening up to people, emotions, and experiences
  - our circumstances, weddings, births and achievements
  - positive actions
  - sharing happiness
  - within, from family, from friends and from loved ones
  - of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, and to be needed
  - through creativity and productivity
* comes when our needs are met and there is no pain
  - unhappiness goes
  - with the achievement of a desired goal
* comparative quality.
* condition of mind often confused with the means of happiness.
* consists in a complete life lived according to virtue
  - destiny harmonizing with our faculties
  - the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness
* correlates very poorly with increases in standards of living over time.
* culmination of many good things.
* depends on perception, just as with music on the ear.
* depends upon external motivation and external stimuli
  - how one looks at things
* equals freedom from tyranny, but work equals money, and money equals tyranny.
* excludes all misery.
* exists in memories, or in a flawed form, precariously existing from one scene to the next.
* feeling that is hard to describe.
* flower that blooms from steer manure.
* form of courage
* function of sun, temperature, and humidity.
* grows in degree, as it widens and spreads among the many.
* has a direct relationship with good health
  - rational basis
  - nothing to do with fame and fortune
* has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing
  - struggling, enduring and accomplishing
* has to do with being rich and famous
  - reason, and only reason earns it
* includes a natural capacity that is satisfied.
* influences all of one's actions, desires and thoughts.
* involves working toward meaningful goals.
* is achieved by moving toward a desired outcome
  - through sacrifice
  - acquired in many ways
  - albums
* is also a luxury
  - an obligation
* is always a by-product of faith
  - key in maintaining a healthy immune system
* is an achievement
  - activity of the soul in accord with perfect virtue
  - amalgam of positive emotions
  - emotion and emotions have understandable rational causes
  - emotional state and can hypothetically be induced with drugs
  - experience of the inner man or woman, or of the child
  - important factor in keeping a vault functioning a peak efficiency
  - inner state of well being
  - anywhere that people take time to care
  - as important to teachers as it is to every other human being
* is attained through action
* is based on 'happenings'
  - internal rather than external factors
  - living generously
  - beneficial or the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind
  - blotted out by selfishness, agression, litter and drugs
  - born in the mind, joy in the heart
  - capable of spread
  - caused by satisfaction of underlying values
  - circumstantial, subject to the shifting vicissitudes of everyday life
  - clearly fundamental in our lives
  - conceived as the overall appreciation of one's life as a whole
  - contentment, or the illusion thereof
  - created by satisfaction
  - crucial to spiritual growth as are people, experiences and events
* is dependent on circumstances
  - what happens, but joy choice
  - derived when our innate self coincides with our behavior and personality
  - desirable in itself and never for the sake of something else
  - determined by belief
  - different from pleasure
* is earned by remaining virtuous even in the face of adversity
  - selfless actions
  - emotional states
* is energy and energy capacity
  - power for living
* is equated with getting, acquiring or accomplishing something
  - equilibrium
* is essential for both the individual and the group
  - the health and growth of love
  - essentially an inner emotional experience, in the heart
  - fairly pervasive among consumers
  - fear and ignorance
  - found from non-selfish acts and is cultivated with time and work
* is found in balance and moderation
  - generous care for others
* is found in the homes of our friends and families
  - little things
* is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind
  - health and bad memory
  - governed by law
  - gratitude for life itself
  - identified with pleasure and the absence of pain
  - in the living more than the making
  - inevitable in true love
* is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality
  - one of the intrinsically desirable things
  - largly dependent upon events or circumstances
  - less the goal of life than the consequence of having attained it
* is located in celebration
  - operas
  - long term and innocent in nature
* is made of pleasure, utility and good
  - to be shared
  - manifest in a state of peace and tranquility in oneself, in the family and community
  - many different things to many different people
  - mood
* is more dependent on how good external conditions and situations are
  - than material well-being
  - natural to our species and absolutely essential to our health and well-being
  - obedience to the leader, or as the sense of community provided by the cult
  - observed at attaining spiritual upliftment after a month of fasting
  - of the soul, the reality of being and fullness through understanding and compassion
  - often more potent when artificially induced
* is often the half-way point between too little and too much
  - result of being too busy to be miserable
  - on the outside with things
  - one of the most important things in a person's life
  - our decision to let go of judgments based upon the past
  - part of social stability
* is peace of mind and body
  - rooted in misery
  - self-actualization and fulfillment
  - simply a state of inner freedom
  - something most people pursue, and it's a big element in bringing couples together
* is something that is long-term
  - most people are concerned about and want
  - multiplies by division
  - sometimes like being disconnected
  - that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values
* is the absence of ill-being
  - the striving for happiness
  - act of living a virtuous life
  - atmosphere in which all good affections grow
  - by-product of serving others
  - core of all things
  - discounted value of the utility over the remaining lifespan
  - dividend earned on a well invested life
  - emotional reward of a successful human life
  - end of human beings
  - feeling resulting from the process of regaining the state of optimal tension
  - final end
* is the goal of all moral acts and virtue
  - the separated self
  - grand object of pursuit among all men
  - greatest goal and the ultimate reward of existence
* is the harmony of adaptability, love and self-discipline
  - the body and mind and heart
  - illusion of the perpetually deceived
  - inevitable result of a certain kind of life the servant life
  - internal state of the mind
  - interval between periods of unhappiness
  - key to harmony, and harmony is needed to live as human beings in our civilization
  - meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence
  - measure of one's productivity
  - mind freed from the tyranny of desire
* is the most fulfilling end, the sum of all other ends
  - precious thing in the world
  - natural state of the organism, a kind of free breathing joy in simple living
* is the one ingredient that one everyone wants in life
  - thing everybody wants all the time
  - only human state that measures our overall physical and mental well-being
* is the opposite of conflict
  - incompleteness and achieved by personal fulfillment
  - poverty and secured by purchase
* is the outcome of harmony
  - such activity
  - pleasure of the moment, the goal
  - principle of actions and the cause of all good things
  - proper pursuit of our human lives
  - remedy for all kinds of diseases because many illnesses are caused by depression
* is the result of a decision to be happy
  - living according to virtue
  - responsible thoughts and behaviors which often require work to achieve
  - the harmonious exercise of wisdom, virtue, love and purity
  - spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude
  - transcending of pleasure and pain
* is the ultimate end of government
  - goal of education, and happiness comes from within
  - virtuous actvity of the soul
  - tied to circumstances
* is to contribute, to be productive, to make a difference
  - desire something, to work for it, and to obtain at least a part of it
  - love and to be loved
  - today's most sought-after pleasure in the Western World
  - two kinds of ice cream
  - virtue of the soul
  - virtuous activity that fulfills our proper function
* is what health is about
  - people strive for in their daily lives
  - where art, philosophy, history, literature, the sciences, and mathematics reside
  - worth more than wealth
* is, according to Aristotelian theory, the final end or human good.
* kind of emotional resting place of quiet satisfaction with one's life.
* lasting feeling of joy and gratitude.
* left brain function.
* less intense but more durable feeling of well being.
* lies in equality.
* lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort
  - achievement, in the thrill of creative effort
* lies, first of all, in health.
* living emotion.
* means always living with a full heart
  - being well-fed and feeling good
  - different things to different people
  - to live with great joy, securely founded on the creative power of life
* measure of the overall health, growth, and harmony of the entire body and mind.
* much more worthwhile goal, and is obtained by being in control of one's desires.
* never decreases by being shared.
* nourishes the soul.
* often depends on our attitude rather than on our circumstances.
* personality reaction.
* positive cash flow.
* pursuit that finds success through purpose, accomplishment, and possibility.
* rainbow bright across the sky.
* relative state and exists only with it's opposite.
* requires both complete virtue and a complete life
  - love, enlightenment, truth, getting higher needs met, and inner harmony
* sensation experienced when two or more harmonious energy systems unite or polarize
  - of our soul and joy positive sensation of our spirit
* smile, a laugh or an inner glow.
* state of activity
  - mind of being happy
* stochastic phenomenon.
* term with different meanings and levels, depending on who one asks.
* ultimately comes from a sense that one is contributing to the well-being of the community.
* universal human goal.
* warm neurotransmitter.
* way of life.
* word for amateurs.