The Many Facets of Happiness

"Happiness" is a word with many diverse meanings. The Webster's Deluxe Unabridged Dictionary and Bartlett's Roget's Thesaurus gave definitions and synonyms and various resources discussed "happiness" in very different ways. The Home Book of Shakespeare Quotations described how "happiness" would look if it were personified. An article in the "Washington Post" and The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry inferred that "happiness" is a temporary frame of mind, yet The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and …

…Post implies that happiness is temporary, yet G.B. Shaw and the Columbia Granger's World of Poetry infer that it could be longer lasting. G.B. Shaw writes that it would make a person miserable to have lifetime of "happiness," and Shakespeare personifies "happiness." Happiness" is not a simple word. It is a word that has many meanings and facers. My research has shown me that happiness means many different things to many different people.