How do you know if you're truly happy?

When you experience a physical warmth, bliss, or external happiness such as smiling. When it seems as if some of your worries melt away, or at least fade temporarily. Happiness is what you make of it, and is an emotion that you can make yourself have. You are your happiness, and you are who makes it happen.

Happiness is an interesting concept. Where does it come from? At what level do you become happy? Well, most likely you may think true happiness comes from completing life goals (e.g. having children, getting married, having a successful career, buying that dream car). But really, happiness comes from within. Too often, we restrict ourselves, saying "I'll be happy when...", putting our happiness into the achievement of a goal. When really, we can choose to be happy, we can decide that today is going to be a good day, and the completion of goals can serve to enhance our happiness, not create it. True happiness lies within the control of one's mind, and it is enhanced by the outside world.

I feel I am truly happy when I forget about thinking about if I'm happy or not. When I can just go about my day and not think about all the things I have to do or what I could have done better.

When I am truly happy, I don't feel any worries. I don't feel sad and I feel no weight of burdens in my life. In the moment, I am free.

You will feel calm and content with what you have and know that you have people whom you can lean on when things get tough again.

I think this is the wrong question; I would ask instead, "How do you know if you're truly content with your life." Happiness is a fleeting emotion, that comes and goes like any other feeling. Being content with your life means that you accept both the highs and lows of life, and it is a feeling that you can make it through any challenge life throws your way. When you are content with your life you are able to celebrate victories, and critically review failures. It is a feeling that you are right where you're supposed to be in life, many achievements in the past, but there are still future goals to pursue. Being content means that when happiness comes, you are able to fully experience and be present in the happy moment.

True happiness, I think, is something that you just feel. It's not something you can consciously force yourself into - you'll just find yourself smiling, even when you're not doing the most exciting thing. You'll brush stuff off easily, and you'll just be glad you are where you are.

Sometimes happiness is being content. Sometimes its letting loose and sometimes it's the people around you that make you happy.

Well, if things are going well at work and life is being rewarding in love as well, you know you're grateful for everything you have. There's more - the wellbeing of your loved ones, meeting your ambitions, having a group of friends who truly care for you and you care and love them in return. However, I am not sure if life can offer all of this in one go. So, I suppose nobody is qualified to be completely happy. There's always that tiny glitch. I hope you can hold on to the good things while letting the worse pass at its own pace. Wishing you the best. :)

You have this feeling that is different from any other feeling. it's like the calmness of the beach waves or the sun shining down on you. once you feel it you know that feeling forever.