The closest I have heard to the key ingredients named four vital sources of happiness. Having described them, I will Share with you a fifth of my own.
Those five sources are, I believe, essentially interlinked and inter-dependent. They could be said to refer to five levels of our life and activity as humans.
It can be a favorite favorite flavor of ice-cream, of pizza, a particular fun-ride in a pleasure park. It is experienced, enjoyed very much, and then it is gone.
It is not so much more feeling of somehow being able to lord it over over your fellow competitors for having not work well in the work and the training and the preparation done and enable us to compete well, has all been worth while.
Community can be described in any number of ways and still be be applicable. It, said that, we have happiness stems from our community involvement. I could have our village or town. But it is our sense of connection, of giving and taking, of communicating with like minded people or by using our skills for the betterment of others in the community which is significant. More, it is the third vital integrated source to achieving happiness.
The fourth and highest level of activity, may be said to be the pursuit of our ultimate purpose in life. Which commitment to a purpose which can out contribute to in our lifetime, which will out-live us It could be a religious commitment. It could be a commitment to banish disease or protect the environment. importantly it is of spiritual dimension, bringing to us that sense of happiness derived from commitment to a cause far greater than ourselves ..
My own fifth source could conceivably be two sources, but I would say it is the combination of unconditional love and gratitude for and this.
