The problem of happiness is one of the main problems of humanity today. On the one hand, there are many dubious pleasures, and on the other hand there is a short life expectancy, disease, stress, talking about the complete lack of happiness, suffering.

For some people, happiness is freedom from all desire to do as you please, which then causes the suffering of this man, and one who surrounds it.

Others think that happiness is when a person just pleased that it is, but there are many different factors that are sometimes beyond the control of the human flaws that spoil all pleasure disappears gradually, and there are problems, confusion, people begins to lose strength, ill loved ones eventually die and disappear happiness. Some people feel happy when reaching their goals, but goals are changing force becomes smaller , the goal is not so real, it is destroyed, and with it destroyed and happiness.

What is happiness? We so often hear this word, but for many people it is just an empty phrase. How people behave in one study, to take an example to feel true happiness? No momentary pleasure and a long and wonderful feeling … these questions in different forms set themselves the great philosophers of the time.

Ethics ancient period set per person. First of all the most important original thinking was the realization of morality, adequacy and charity. Another important point on which it is impossible not to draw attention — a desire harmony in the soul of the person and its harmony with the environment.

Plato and Aristotle believed that happiness — the highest goal of personality, which can reach a wise, honest and intelligent person. Plato observed that wisdom is able to make mankind happy. It focuses on the full realization of happiness for mankind. Scientific very idealized happiness and believed that people should sacrifice their interests for the sake of society.

In general, the most ancient ethics considered concept of freedom and slavery, but the race did not matter. The man who inspired some idea recognized it was considered a slave of his ideas. In the works of early Greek literature is increasingly seen freedom, happiness, interests. They say that ethical reflections were not far from the people.

Democritus believed the main doctrine of virtue and good. Honesty is the main way to achieve the greatest good that is the purpose of life. And happiness is the highest good of the individual — peace, happiness, balance. Democritus said about humanity and sense of proportion wisdom. When a person has these qualities, it can distinguish important things that will benefit from it unimportant, unnecessary killing precious time.

Socrates stressed that the meaning of human life — to achieve happiness. Happiness — is the inside of the charity being — he says, but the only person who has morals can be happy.

To be happy, people do not need anyone, even God, money, jewels and physical things. Since then, people need only your mind, right thought and directed the path to peace of mind. It is recognizing the true happiness. This path led to the abandonment of all the excess that does not depend on the person and to rely on irresistible power of his mind. Tim determined by the value of things only thought which people formed about them.

The principle of asceticism manifested in the primacy of spiritual values, absolute spiritual by eliminating the material and physical. The positive value of man both then and now is communicating with people, friendship, moral support to people who lose heart.

Communication is a means of moral and intellectual development of man; empowering realization of man; involvement of values ??of others. But communication should be quantitatively limited. Too many people providing communication superficial, distorts the moral content of the communication. In this case, communication acts as a negative value. Communication must be selective, based on mutual understanding of people, their spiritual and emotional community.

During antiquity goal for people was an imitation of nature. This idea first demonstrated Zeno. The meaning of this life is not pleasure, but in understanding and lack of use. The mind plays a crucial role in the fate of man. Only he can make a person in indeed a happy. It was then that the ancient myths are eliminated nobility of blood and beauty, which built institutions of slavery. People should be free; no man is a slave by nature. Slaves of other people did.

Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryunoske once said: «To make your life happy, to love everyday stuff». The deeper we get into the details of being hidden and not detail, the more we learn to distinguish their flavor , their uniqueness, their language, the more comfort they are able to bring to us when the need for it becomes imperative for us .

The famous philosopher Seneca said that the happiest person and who is not required fortunately, it did not focus on that. She simply enjoys his happiness at this moment, she meditates in a sense and it is happiness. Perhaps he was right. But not all people are given the strength and wisdom to understand it much easier to get depressed, think about the poor, remember that no one likes, complain to the plight of negative thoughts… Deteriorating health, the person becomes more and away from the concept of «happiness»… and just dying alive … Wine at this person. So now the problem is very serious in solving. Even doctors cannot save the unfortunate hopeless people do not even realize that happiness is about …