The Pursuit of the Blissful

This is perfect rubbish. How does one quantify such an abstract quality? Journalists who write garbage like this should go to Iraq and Sudan and actually do some worthwhile reporting!

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"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." - Albert Camus

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." - Albert Camus

of course there is happiness, "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" as you posted vinsin328 you do agree there is sadness therefore there must be happiness. How to obtain and mantain this happiness is the key. I agree with you that simply understanding that good and bad things are going to happen helps in this, life changes every second, good will come, bad will come, moneys here, now its not, ect... however God does not change and he is what i base my hapiness upon, he is my rock and refuge, there for wether my present situation brings me grief, or despair, wether my children are healthy or sick, ect.. I may grieve, I may cry, of course, but I remain at a state of contenment, and my happiness remains through it all, come down to texas and see me smile, everyday

What is happiness? Does something like hapiness really exit? Animals don't think about happiness. Isn't it a another product in the market to sell and make somehow profit out of it? You'll feel always more content if you can understand a situation fully and your state of being. And there are only two paths for them, one is complete ignorance and other is knowledge. Simply understanding that good and bad things are part of everybody life and it's normal to feel sad sometime can make a lot of change in someones perspective. Remember religion and ignorance may be the easiest way towards this but is the worst.

What is happiness? Does something like hapiness really exit? Animals don't think about happiness. Isn't it a another product in the market to sell and make somehow profit out of it? You'll feel always more content if you can understand a situation fully and your state of being. And there are only two paths for them, one is complete ignorance and other is knowledge. Simply understanding that good and bad things are part of everybody life and it's normal to feel sad sometime can make a lot of change in someones perspective. Remember religion and ignorance may be the easiest way towards this but is the worst.

Ooops I meant aarhumm and Lily lou too.

I agree with you Lily lou. Nice comment and so very true!

Lily Lou I agree with you wholeheartedly! Nice comment...

Lets just say i'll never be visiting Moldova.

lets just say ill never be visiting moldova.

The people who are the "happiest " (whatever that means) seem to be those who spend the least amount of time obsessing about whether they are "happy" or not. This American fixation on "happiness" is a destabilizing pathology in American the searxch for happiness is essentially selfish in nature . Our ancestors, the ones who made thius country great, had no time for the pursuit of "happiness"--and ironically in many ways may have been happier--or at least more CONTENT, a much different and much more important thing, than today's society with its neurotic fixation on being "happy."

The happiest people are generally those who spend the least time obsessing over whether they are happy or not. "Happiness" wasn't even on the radar screen for our ancestors in this country, the people who built America. They were too damned busy just getting by. Happiness is largely an illusion and a chimera for people too befuddled with a sense of entitlement to realize that happiness is much less important than comntentment, quite a different thing. The fixation on happiness is a serious American pathology.

Funny, I don't recall seeing anything written about the massive influx of people trying to enter these countries. Also, you don't miss what you have never had. Weiner's statement that you have to be less ambitios to be happy is a pile of crap. Look at the ghettos, you can't find less ambition on the face of the planet and I sure don't see smiles and hugs- do you?

Before you can discuss happiness you must make distinctions between, pleasure, joy, happiness, and fulfillment. Pleasure is sensate. Joy is mental. Happiness is an emotional state. Fulfillment is the satisfaction of knowing, like MLK, that one has fulfilled not one's goals, but one's potential.