Today’s Question by Aart Hilal

by Paulo Coelho on May 9, 2008

What makes you happy? What you think what is more important: to make 800 people happy with your job and social work or millions people happy trough your books.Or just make happy only one of them,The most important one?

Who said that I am happy? I am a warrior of the light, I have my moments of ups and downs. But I cannot judge in quantity; you cannot measure love like you measure a road. Providing that you put all of yourself in everything you do, you are fulfilling your task as a human being.

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Billa Sharma September 16, 2011 at 4:13 pm

Whatever I do do fulheartly, it may be love life. Social life or work field ( I don’t do things, which I don’t want to ) whatever result may be I am satisfied and happy.

Although, results are always not upto my expectation but I am happy.

Because now, I know what mistake I have commited, which led to unwanted results and I can improve little more and it is for sure one day I will achieve my goal.

Satisfaction and happiness are coressponding words.

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Maria A. February 2, 2011 at 3:35 pm

Io sono convinta, sono sempre stata convinta, che abbiamo questo “potere speciale”, di far felici gli altri.
E di questo sono felice.
La mia felicità spesso è legata a questo anche se è vero che ci sono gli alti e i bassi, ma sono pienamente sicura che anche dalle piccole cose, dai nostri atteggiamenti e le piccole cose di tutti i giorni, si può regalare la felicità, ad una come a mille persone.
E anche se solo un attimo di felicità vale per me quanto mille momenti di tristezza.
E’ una sensazione indescrivibile la gioia, ed è il regalo più grande che si possa fare.
Così si potrebbe riuscire a cambiare il mondo. :)

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Sabrina November 2, 2010 at 11:35 am

We can make a million persons happy, and the most important one for us, just with a smile. Simply with a siple smile :)

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NoOneReally! September 12, 2010 at 7:27 pm

Well, I read the post by Alone Sad Girl and I want to tell her I feel like you today.

Here is my two pence worth:
Happiness is a myth. It is created to make us feel dissatified with our life…it is a pursuit…now I think it can only be a pursuit and nothing else!
Just drop all illusions, all expectations, all ideas about what will, can, did and does make you happy and maybe in that emptiness, that vaccuum…happiness might exist.

Today I stand at the end of a road, a journey that started with the will and desire to make a dream come true…the dream so far looks lost with not much hope…but on the way I learnt some tough life lessons…maybe they will help me to make another dream possible one day…or may be not…
At this moment I feel like the tired and worn out warrior who returns with bruises and a broken armour…and empty dreams and not much else…
for now, I choose to live with no dreams…just reality.

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Alone Sad Girl June 21, 2010 at 11:12 am

i think “happy” is only a word and nothing else…..im not hapy….nobody happy….

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Sabrina November 2, 2010 at 11:59 am

No happiness is not just a word, it’s a feeling, the greates feeling we all know and all feel. We just close our eyes and pretend that we cannont see it. Anything can make us happy, look at the sky, feel and swallow the pure air around you, make the space of you even, and you’ll feel the happiness, the great happiness to see the intense blue sky, and to feel the cold pure air. Don’t ever complain about what arrives you, and don’t ever compare your life to the others, because maybe they enjoy the pain they’re living in ( as the hobbows in the Zahir :) ) just believe that you have nothing to lose in this life, because there’s nothing you own ! There’s nothing you own in this world because you will let all these things here, and you will take just your actions with you, nothing more :)

Mung Daal March 8, 2010 at 7:04 am

The moment you can make others happy is when you have been yourself

Happiness is not in perpetuity but in countless fleeting moments that stays in the heart forever

keeping you young and hopeful

it is what separates the adventurous from the resigned

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lordwuji February 13, 2011 at 8:10 am

exactly….that is where the line is drawn…and as how buddha put it,…the cause of unhappiness is grasping on things and clinging on to it…and when it is gone, one might get shattered….on the other hand someone said, ” touch the lives of those u meet as if they will end at midnight “…i think that makes sense drawing the line between the adventurous and resigned….

Monika May 11, 2008 at 11:39 pm

The expression personal legend and destiny in life are used very often on this blog. This made me thinking and asking myself:

Who of you has really found out what you personal legend or your destiny in life is? I don’t want an eplanation of the expressions, but an answer to the question “Who of you can say with doubtlessness I know this or that is my destiny in live?”
Would also be an interesting question of the week!

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MARMAR ZAMANI May 11, 2008 at 8:49 pm

Well, life would be more joyful and meaningful if we have a job that you enjoy, caring family, real friends, feeling important and needed and not easy to be replaced, to be healthy and having piece of mind.

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kealan May 11, 2008 at 3:40 am

I can make people happy, takes about 6weeks if you have the money :)

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Tania May 11, 2008 at 3:23 am

Just me ,back again …I read this saying in the chemist the other day and I thought about it this morning …plus it makes sense well to me anyway ..Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open .
Blessings Tania

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Ruthie May 10, 2008 at 10:50 pm

In pursuit of happiness we often pass by the subtler sounds of joy and the tones of contentment because we are to busy waiting for the bells of rapture to ring.
Happiness to me is a sense of belonging to the gentle heart beat of the world, found in a smile, a flower, a breeze.
Dont be happy so you can show someone you are, if you truly feel, it will eminate from you like a crystal clear spring and flow on to others naturally.
R X

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Tania May 10, 2008 at 2:41 am

I think if you make yourself happy then it flows on ,happiness is a choice ,sometimes its in our control sometimes a bit out of our control but always in our own hands left up to us ..I have always made myself happy and what joys come into my life only bring me more love/happiness the decision is always ours..this is wholeness .But I do know its nice to share your ups and downs with another person ..and if that person makes you feel more happiness/joy in your heart that you gave or received then everything you do or touch showers you in knowledge that you loved ,laughed and lived your legend like there was no tomorrow .Love and Light Tania

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Karen May 9, 2008 at 9:06 pm

I think doing the right thing will make those who deserve to be happy, happy. The rest who are only happy with wrong doing, don’t deserve happiness.

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maria May 9, 2008 at 8:40 pm

I mean… You are doing that Paulo

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maria May 9, 2008 at 8:39 pm

I want to fulfill my destiny through out my personal legend. Your doing that Pulo, your soul has a big smile…

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Maria-M May 9, 2008 at 6:29 pm

Happy is not a destination is estate of being.

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Alexandra May 9, 2008 at 4:52 pm

I agree Love is or very difficult to be measured,or impossible.Is also unfair to compare love for different persons.Is like parents who are asking a little kid:Whom do you love more,your father,or your mother.We must think at tunes.shadows.Every type of love is important,is an exercise of heart.

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Agnieszka May 9, 2008 at 3:00 pm

If there’s only one person you can fill with love..you can touch God’s heart…if there’s more…you can make this world…heaven on earth..,
I believe..

love
Agnieszka

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Sabrina November 2, 2010 at 12:03 pm

You will take just what you did in your grave.
God bless you :)

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