Happiness, defining the concept of happiness is difficult. Surely one of the most controversial and complicated definitions. Human beings have always tended to pursue happiness as a goal or an end, as an ideal welfare state and continuing to arrive, however, it seems that happiness is composed of small moments in vivid detail the day-to-day, and perhaps its main feature is the futility, its ability to appear and disappear in a constant throughout our lives.

Another of the controversies surrounding this issue is where to look for happiness, if external events and materials or in our interior, in our own internal arrangements. Even today it is difficult to answer this concerned. For this reason, and from a psychological point of view, the study of subjective well-being seems preferable to the approach of happiness.

Happiness, a concept with profound meanings, including joy, but also many other emotions, some of which are not necessarily positive (commitment, struggle, challenge, even pain).

It’s the motivation, the activity to led to something, the desire to do so, the search, and not the achievement or the satisfaction of desires, which produces deeper positive feelings in people…

More:
http://www.gethappy.net/
http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/
http://www.davidmyers.org/Brix?pageID=20