A wise quote by the writer Luo Lang describes the instinct of human beings to pursue happiness. Engels also pointed out that "everyone pursues happiness" is an irrefutable principle, and "pursuing happiness" was even written into the American Declaration of Independence. Indeed, in our hearts, we all want happiness, which is probably the only widely recognized goal in life. But what is happiness? This problem has long been a difficult problem that people have been thinking about all their lives. First, the connotation of happiness In the history of human thought development, many famous philosophers and thinkers have given careful consideration to happiness and made their own unique understanding. But of course, people have not reached a consensus on the question of "what is happiness". For different people, the concept of happiness will have different contents, and everyone will define what happiness is for themselves. At the beginning of the Confucian classic Book of Rites University, it is said that "the way to a university is to be virtuous and stop at perfection." "Stop at the best" is the highest pursuit of moral personality, and the pursuit of the best is the pursuit of happiness. In the process of pursuing moral personality, it is also a process of self-improvement and a process of nurturing happiness. Buddhism believes that the happiness of life lies not in how much you get, but in how much you can cherish. There is a proverb in Jing Chu that "contentment is the first wealth". Those who can be content and grateful are the richest people in the world, and contentment is the supreme happiness. According to Taoism, true happiness is not the sensual pleasure pursued by secular people, but the realm of spiritual absolute freedom that is not enslaved by any foreign objects. Aristotle, the master of ancient Greek thought, declared that "happiness is the best", only the value of happiness is the ultimate and sufficient, and everything else is just the means or ways to achieve this ultimate goal. Once happiness is realized, everything else becomes irrelevant. However, this "supreme goodness" is formed by correct behavior, not by actual pleasure. A happy person is actually a virtuous person. Feuerbach believes that "the principle of morality is happiness, and this kind of happiness not only makes individuals happy, but also makes others happy". Kant, a German classical philosopher, saw the opposition between happiness and morality in real life. He believes that human beings, as perceptual beings, should pursue material interests and happiness, which is a legitimate right of human beings, but at the same time, human beings are rational beings and the main body of the moral world, only pursuing virtue. These two requirements of human beings are legitimate, but when they appear on one person at the same time, they will inevitably fall into contradiction. Seeing the limitations of unilaterally emphasizing the pursuit of virtue and happiness, he tried to unify them in his own field of vision, but failed to find a way to realize the unity of happiness and morality. Happiness, as people's feelings and evaluation of life, is not a temporary satisfaction caused by an accidental factor in life, but an overall evaluation of a certain stage or all of life. People are always pursuing happiness, but only under the guidance of reasonable value goals can they have real life value and real happiness feelings. Happiness is not the satisfaction of material desires, but the enrichment of mind and spirit. Happiness and happiness are not innate, but acquired in practice, which requires human efforts and a certain price. People are constantly pursuing freedom and all-round development of personal ability, that is, the process of pursuing happiness and reaching eternity in life. Second, the factors that affect college students' happiness (1) The relationship between money, material enjoyment and happiness. When human beings are struggling on the line of life and death far from food and clothing, the utilitarian pursuit of obtaining material wealth must be in the first place. However, with the development of society, it is no longer a problem for many people to ensure basic survival, but the mainstream society is still rolling forward inertia. Economism, industrialism, the supremacy of science, etc. It seems that human beings live for production and consumption.