Happiness versus  Pleasure?
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Ok this will be short:)\n\nHappiness is the basis, if the basis contains holes we try to fill them with pleasure.\n\nI curious abt what book it was that you mentioned...
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I would say both! But i will also tend to lean towards happiness my friend. Financial reward is definetly good when it comes to material gain. Once one has money, one can achieve greater things such as material spending etc... Although when one has no material gain, what will you do? On the other hand, if you are happy, then what else does matter? \n\nFor example: You have earned $5000 a month. You will spend it on rent, utilities etc.. But you will also spend it on something you like because it will make you happy. Well it will make you think that you are happy!!! But what if you don't have that amount? What if you just have happiness? You don't even need to spend on anything, but you will still be happy. And what is better than being happy? If you know what happiness is, then everything else doesn't really matter...\n\nThere are people out in the world who are doing jobs called volunteering. They are actually doing it for their own happiness (even though they are doing it for their resume also)! But if you talk to some of those people, they will tell you that the best accomplishments in their life was to help those people in needs, not the amount of money they were making 15 years after that!!!! \n\nSo yes both because you need to survive in the world today, but it is more important to be happy than be rich! Cheers!
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Your mental attitude about it. Both are there to send your mind a message ... "i like what i am experiencing now"(pleasure) or "something is wrong, tell me what it is"(pain). Interestingly, for some people the exact same sensation can be both at different times.
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It is the best pleasure a human can have, and share with someone they love.\n\nSometimes people do it just for the physical pleasure.\n\nYour conscious guides on which direction to take.
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good ? i think true happiness is being contented with what u have. to have people around u that care for you and love u even when u mess up. it's going through life knowing that it may bring pain but your willing to live it at it's fullest anyways. its enjoying everything good that life brings and dealing with the bad things that it brings.
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give, there is more pleasure giving
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With or without happy ending ?
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Happiness is sucess.  It is the driving force of all people, toward happiness and away from pain.
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(m)\n\nHappiness, ventured William James, the noted 19th century philosopher/psychologist, is reflected in the ratio of one's accomplishments to one's aspirations. This suggests, of course, that when it comes to feeling happy in our lives, we can choose one of two paths: continually add to our list of accomplishments--or lower our expectations.\n\nSince then, researchers have suggested new definitions of happiness and how we should go about getting there. In their attempt to understand and quantify the state of "subjective well-being" (lab-speak for happiness), a new ratio/question has emerged: How many positive vs. negative experiences must people have before they can call themselves genuinely "happy"?\n\nThe general consensus of current research is that happiness is greatest when we combine frequent numbers of good experiences with a few very intense ones. The good experiences may include, for example, having a good, productive job, a caring spouse or romantic partner, and several hobbies or interests that one takes pleasure in. An occasional romantic getaway weekend, the birth of a new child, or garnering recognition for some personal or professional deed would satisfy the need for intense pleasures.\n\nYet, to feel happy, our focus nevertheless needs to be on the frequency, not the intensity, of positive events in our lives. Learning how to take pleasure in the littler victories, recognizing their importance in our lives, and working hard to minimize the negatives will accomplish more than waiting around for a burst of intense pleasure. When we place an overriding emphasis on the "big moments," we run the risk of disillusionment and disappointment--we miss out on the very things that do the scut work of happiness.\n\nWhile there appears to be no one route to happiness, information gathered by researchers from interviews with thousands of subjects of varying ages, economic backgrounds, education level, age, sex, and cultural origin suggests that there are steps we can take to improve our overall satisfaction and well-being. To describe them for you, we sought out four top happiness researchers from across the United States and Canada.\n\nWe asked all of them the same five questions:\n\no How do you define happiness?\n\no What are the best ways to get there?\n\no Who is happy...happier...happiest?\n\no What doesn't lead to happiness (that we mistakenly think will)?\n\no Has the definition of happiness changed significantly over the last few decades?\n\nDrawing on self-report scales, longitudinal studies, and clinical interviews with thousands of subjects, the following experts offer some practical advice on the subtle art of feeling good.
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With the 'pursuit' of happiness
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Just my opinion (and I got this through 45 years of experience)... :) , but neither are more important in the scheme of things.  The MOST important thing is making yourself happy.  Because if you aren't happy, then you're social life or family life isn't going to make you happy either.  Happiness comes from within, grasshopper, not from "doing stuff" or being with others.\n\nGood luck!
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Nothing wrong with self-pleasure.  You do need to get out & be doing something ovccassionally, like go to church events.
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Hedonism:pursue pleasure, avoid pain.
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There is  a difference between being paid well/benefitting from and job and being happy and fulfilled.  The question isn't what would I do, the question is whether or not you are willing to possibly sacrifice the good parts of the job you have for something that gives you the chance to do something you feel is more worthwhile.
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Always remember, happiness is a state of the mind...\nwhen we are happy our mind is the one that gives us this feeling of happiness not the heart...-lil bro\n\nIts because of the Hypothalamus in the brain which controls our emotions. I wish I could take it out(or at least the part of it  which controls the emotions which I dunno where)...if only it werent that important...(it controls our whole body!) then we can live without emotions. Now that would be fun.   -me ü
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It depends.  Happiness can be a choice most of the time, but there are always times when life just sucks and it is nearly impossible to "choose happiness".\n\nI'll give you an example, in 2001 this was my year.  February, Dale Earnhardtt died, my son was kicked out of his senior year of high school and his dad decided not to take him to alternative school, April, I found out my mom was going to die within the year and I had to fire over 140 people I had hired in the past year.  August, I quit my job to start my own company, September, of course 9/11 happened and then my husband decided he would rather sleep with his secretary than stay married to me.\n\nSo, as you can see, I kept trying to choose happiness, but first I had to get through my entire plate of s*** \n\nI think you can choose happiness on most days/years.  I think perpetually pesimistic people choose to see the world as bad and unfair.  But I also know that sometimes, happiness is not a choice.
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assuming that misery is the ultimate state of unhappiness? Sure, as happiness has no requirement. Ah, I see ... it is a trick question... to know that you are happy is a kind of misery anyway as knowledge foreshadows wisdom and wisdom is a sad thing. Igorance again is the key ... actually this question resembles a koan like what is the sound of one hand clapping or mu.