be happy

Experience inner contentment

To be happy is to experience contentment, joy, or satisfaction with one's circumstances.

The phrase often appears as advice or well-wishing: Just be happy, I want you to be happy.

It can sound dismissive when offered as a solution to complex problems: Why can't you just be happy with what you have?

Related

contentment · inner peace · delight · gratitude · count your blessings · heart full · living well · kindness · companionship · love · euphoria · friendships · joy · forgiveness · grinning · relaxation · thrilled · good vibes

Categories
Opposites
emotional state

be happysuffer

Experience pain or distress

despair · grieve · weep · lament

life satisfaction

be happymope

Sulk in idleness

languish · sulk · brood · wallow · shut down

Family

happy, unhappy, happiness, happily, unhappiness, unhappily, happier, happiest, happy-go-lucky

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G