Why happiness doesn't last forever? Why all the pleasures we experience in our life are temporary?
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Nothing in this world is permanent. Impermanance. It is a fact of life.\n\nImpermanance is a key concept in Buddhism.\n\n"If you suffer, it is not because things are impermanent. It is because you think things are permanent. When a flower dies, you don't suffer much, because you understand that flowers are impermanent. But you cannot accept the impermanence of your beloved one, and you suffer deeply when she passes away."\n\n"If you look deeply into impermanence, you will do your best to make her happy right now. Aware of impermanence, you become positive, loving and wise. Impermanence is good news. Without impermanence, nothing would be possible. With impermanence, every door is open for change. Impermanence is an instrument for our liberation."\n\n- Thich Nhat Hanh (famous Zen Buddhist)
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Well, that depends on your definition of "the good things in life."  The good things in life can come from just being and doing, not buying.  It's truly all a state of mind.  Being happy and content with what you have, and not always wanting more, can make a person happy.  Of course, it's human nature to always want more; and when we see so many material things in front of us all the time (magazines, tv, etc.), it's easy to get in the trap of always wanting more, more, more.  I'm not trying to be hypocritical here, because I'm the same as everyone out there, I love nice things too.  I've just found over time however, that I can be just as happy having less, as opposed to having more.  Does that make any sense?
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I could never get tired of living. There is so much to see and do in the world. I want to live long enough to understand how everything works, which is impossible of course but that's not going to stop me trying. The older I get the more fun I have, because I keep getting better at it. I know some people think life's value stems from its fleeting nature but they obviously don't realise how much life has to offer! Those of you who don't want to live this long, why not? 100 years is no time at all, so savour every moment. I hope I'm fit and healthy my whole life, but as long as I can function I can be happy.
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Acheiving personal happiness is the primary goal in this life.One is in this world to experience joys and fulfilment.What-ever be the reason,past is dead.Live in the present and dream about your future . Plan actions for  where you would like to be years hence. Keep youself physically and mentally busy.
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Hmmm....well, being happy creates less stress on the body systems, which frees up energy for pursuing your goals, and life work. Also, happy people are much more tolerant and accepting of others than unhappy people, which is better for humanity as a whole.  Being happy isn't quite the same thing as being joyous.  Happiness, the kind that lasts, comes from a sense of things being right in your world, and in your life, which means you are living in harmony with your higher purpose, and this kind of happiness can't be ruined or taken away by circumstances.  It is a mind-set that sees possibilities in every situation, rather than judging each experience as either good or bad.
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If you believe that you will never be happy then you will never allow yourself to be happy and always doubt what you have. If we look at what is good in our current situation instead of all that is lacking we will feel better. A lot of happiness is controlling how the negative things effect us and rising above it.
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If you are happy and optimistic, you will feel less stress throughout your whole life.  I'm sure this makes you live longer.  It's the same reason that people with pets live longer and people in happy marriages live longer.
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Age involves the passage of time. If time were at a stand still, everything remains as it is when time stopped. There would be no growth physically, emotionally, spiritually, etc.Time involes changes both good and bad which rounds out life, and makes life worth living. Think about this for a minute,if nothing changes, wouldn't life be unbearable BORING? Think about what I have said here, and truly have a very Happy 30th birthday.
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if you are happy in your life all the time, you will loose the value of it . we know what happiness is after facing the sorrows if their is no sorrow then happiness doesn't have it's value so try to appericiate sorrow and u will understand the true joy
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I am 27, married, 2 little girls 3 1/2 and 10 months, and I had a good job with a bank until 2 weeks ago. And no, none of that guaranteed happiness. Happiness comes from accepting who you are, what you want, and working to make youself the best person you can be. No oustide factors will change that. They may add to it, enhance it, make it more convenient, but they will not be what makes you happy.
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We are only happy if there is a possibilty to be sad. if we have everything, we have no reason to be sad, so we're not happy. but we forget that if we lose everything, we can be sad too. so be happy.
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If you think about it, all the experience we call life is actually our impression of external events, but filtered through the nervous system and the brain. Whatever you see, you see in your brain, also what you touch and what you taste and what you smell, it's all sensed through your brain. That's why taoists say that ultimately, nothing really has an intrinsic "existence", but it's all conveniently rendered into ideas by our thoughts. Anyway, besides that fact, I think there's a factor in your life that is not allowing you too feel 100%. When all your senses are in order you don't become aware of how life seems to be a construction of the psyche. I think you need to do things that make you more "grounded", and you'll get over that. Best thing to do is to spend some time outdoors. Go camping for a couple of nights, or just for a hike outdoors, or visit a farm, or ride a horse or something. All those things make your senses go more into survival mode, therefore relaxing all other anxieties. Just a thought.
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The concept of happiness is difficult to determine. Maybe you can be happy with a kiss or maybe with a smile, etc... Happiness is a very subjective feeling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness
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:)\nReal happiness come from knowing that you are at one with the purpose of your creator.\nStruggling against that purpose leaves us with an unfilled G-d shaped hole in our lives.\nA sense of purpose , sense of fulfillment, a sense of pleasing the creator
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joy & sorrow both transcend the boundaries of\nbeing human, it is an endless experience of\ncommunion with who each of us express in\nones life time, where sorrow is our surrender\nto pensives ways so joy is an action of gratification,\nit is never ending because there is an endless\nexperience to the colours of love & curiosity, or from\nthe pressures of what we like or dislike and any\ntoxic agressive or defensive particulars we encounter.\nWe may suppose we have limits, yet within our\ndeepest inner feelings we still experience an endless\nsupply of sorrow & joy.
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Because you are experiencing a momentary/temporary feeling that everything is going wrong. Don't worry however, this feeling never lasts too long. It is in human nature to feel depressed, but not in human nature to feel depressed for very long.
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What is the problem exactly? Enjoy it now while you still can. It will not last forever,  I can guaranty you that.