Can true, lasting happiness ever be achieved? How?
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yes, hon, it really can.  I have it now with my man.\n\nBut you can't live your life being scared of the future. You must realize that your life as it is today is beautiful and useful and people love you for who you are now.  \n\nHow?  By being totally true to yourself.  Keep it real for you and nobody else.  If you truly enjoy being a treehugger, then go hug trees the rest of your life.  Do what you love and the money will follow.
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hey cutie pie,\ncommon the  best way to be happy is to be with life the wy it brings u and also have a good time tryin g to get new friends and sharing urself with someone.
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Happiness is a relative term.  It is a mental state in which one feels a sense of fulfilment.  One can experience happiness through interaction with external sources, for example, reading a good book, or achieving something.  Happiness can also be experienced through pure internal exercise, say by meditation. Whether experienced through external or internal sources, happiness is completely an internal mental state and is restricted to the person experiencing it.  What brings happiness for one may not do so for another.\nHappiness achieved through meditation are long lasting.
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This is a realy good question, you must be so smart to have thought of it... Question like this will make me get through the day... You have a every good day and i wish you all the happiness... Whats the truth in this answer...
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Virtually everything makes me happy, but then I've discovered how to be happy pretty much regardless of circumstances. You should try it sometime. I think you'd like it. :))
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Well... look around... Do you like what you see? Are you happy for what lessons you have already learned? Are you pleased on what you are able to do for the better of tomorrow? That is all really. If you are happy. If you are pleased on what you have as a past, to put you in your position you are in now, and where it can lean you from your own ambition from knowing that this is your life. And if you are not happy with anything, well that is something that needs to be worked out within yourself, because you should be happy for everything in your life. Why should there be a reason for you to be un-happy? Are you missing anything? Do you have patience to take the time and effort to get to that point in obtaining that goal? Everything is in your hands. Just remember to take everything as it is and be happy for it. Don't expect anything. Things will flow much better if you do that. Hope this helps. Cheers!
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be happy and be true to yourself
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Happiness is qualitative. It can not be quantified. But the Utilitarians wanted to quantify it in the 19th century.
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surely no..\nbecoz true love cant pay with money\nmoney just can buy happiness just for a moment
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There is nothing in the universe to make a human being 100 percent happy and satisfy.We pretend to be happy and satisfied.Thats why we hope & dream ,we work, we try our best ,we look forward for more love,more money ,more comforts.If once you achive everything in your life then you'll find no meaning no lead your life.The only thing you require to make or become happy and satisfied in married life is heartful love - we know love conquires everything.And the secondary things are sacrifice and adjustment.If your question points to physical matters then you should know that physically a man or woman can attract his / her partner at best one year.Thanks
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Here is the answer but your not going to like it. The only thing or person that can make you truly happy is you! You have to be happy all by your self.  If you can't do that you will never be truly happy.  Things and people can give you certen gratification but your happyness lies with in you.  You are the only one that can let people upset you, you are the only one that can let cercumstances upset you.
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If you don't stop projecting happiness as "something more" or some "place" you have to get to, you will wake up one day in your 80's, if you live that long, still wanting more and still not knowing "true happiness."  \n\nHappiness is found in taking the time to enjoy the simplicity of life - which is where you can find joy every single day.  Happiness is found when you are still, when you stop to really see - people, flowers, the sky...or just enjoy the sounds of everyday, thankful that you can see and hear and taste and smell.  \n\nWhat are you thankful for?  Do you wake up and think of those things?  Who do you love and who loves you?  How do you feel knowing you are loved?  How do you feel when you give to others?\n\nThere is no formula or instructions or things you have to "do" to be truly happy.  To be truly happy you have to learn to love yourself in all the stages of your life.  It doesn't mean you won't know disappointment or sadness or hurt.  It means that inspite of these things you know that you are "perfectly" you, a human being with all of the imperfections we all have, yet magnificent at the same time.  When you learn to enjoy something that you normally take for granted - like the first breath you take when you wake up in the morning to a new day - you will know what "happiness" means.
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TO BE HAPPY....VERY, VERY HAPPY!!
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It is only true if you believe it. The power of positive thoughts can overcome anything!
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First thing, go make a million dollars. Then if you are still unhappy, you can atleast go places.\n\nPeople say money can't buy happiness, I say you can rent it for a while.
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If you haven't already, read Viktor Frankl's book, "Man's Search for Meaning."  It not only tells of his experiences in the Concentration Camps, but discusses the basic elements of Logotherapy...that is, therapy through finding meaning in life.  To respond directly to your question, "happiness" is a by-product of finding meaning--The more meaning you discover, the more happy you will find yourself.  Think about it...Best wishes as you discover the answers as the "co-creator" of your life.
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I do think man is an evolutionary animal, but not one whose happiness is connected to any sense of forward movement.  There are to many people operating in a stagnant state and content and often quite happy to remain there.  I believe, in general, man's sense of happiness is derived from whatever state of contentment he allows himself to marinate in.  Whether it be while moving forward, backward or not at all.