What does it mean to be happy?

What does it mean to be Happy? 

I found these two quotes and seemed to connect to them both.

“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Happiness is the base state of being human. Happiness is what is left when you detach yourself from your desires, when you let go of all the clutter in your mind, when you just simply ‘be’ without any pretense or expectations. Happiness is being able to stay in this state, even while you are pursuing those desires, even when your mind is cluttered, because you know that you are not those desires or thoughts, but something greater and beyond those things."

I know that being happy is a choice, a decision we make each day. It does not come easily it is something you have to strive for, and once you get it often you have to fight to keep it. There is much to be grateful in this world, and yet it is easy to be displeased, unsatisfied, and disgruntled about the way things are going...


Remember to stop and smell the roses once in awhile and choose to find happiness in what you have....