Happiness is everything. Where there is happiness, everything else is possible and so we asked the community to tell us what makes them happy.

Samantha Geiger

Happiness, for me, is more than just materialistic things. Happiness for me comes from my faith, a bright sunny day, hearing the birds chirp in the morning, watching waves crash on shore, finishing a good book, seeing my best friends, spending time with family. A lot makes me happy, and for good reason. Life is too short to get wrapped up in things that, at the end of the day, don’t matter, that cause me pain or disdain. I choose to surround myself with things that make me happy so during those times of pain or unhappiness, I can always find the good even in the bad Read More>>

Mindy Warman

It may be cliche saying this coming from a photographer but taking pictures really does make me happy. Not that every photo I take wells up that deep feeling of joy and happiness. It’s those moments I see when observing others, say at an event I’m photographing, and my heart smiles seeing someone laughing with their friends, a couple dancing quietly together, a child reaching up their hands for Daddy to pick them up, and I point my camera and capture that exact moment in time, those are the moments that make me love being a photographer! Read More>>

Elizabeth Hilton

I think I am most happy when i find ways to get outside of myself. Immersing in nature, a vigorous bike ride or yoga session, and then of course when i am creating art. Whether i have moments where i doubt my talent or the financial sacrifices that go hand in hand with being an artist, I know it is right where I’m meant to be because of that feeling of happiness that comes from embodying the flow state. Read More>>