happiness is unlike joy. Joy means being happy for a short time. It is what comes after achieving goals, whereas happiness is a long lasting state and it is mainly based on satisfaction of the current conditions and self-fulfillment. To test this definition, I used Love as an example of what causes happiness. In your opinion, how can love cause long-lasting happiness or in what way love can cause happiness. If you think there would be better examples of causes of happiness other than love, please feel free to suggest.
Thank you
2006-11-25 20:14:22 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Difficult question. I think that love and happiness are subjective feelings. For example, a person who has been beaten down (you name it, mentally, emotionally, physically, sexually) for most of their early childhood would define and experience love and happiness very differently than someone from different circumstances. I think that love comes deep from within the body. People who spend most of their time evading physical sensations or creating situations that do not sustain emotional self-fulfillment (are usually people who get sick or are accident prone but really deny it) know happiness peripherally--although they know it on a psychological level, perhaps remembering a glimmer from their childhood. Other people can know happiness because they feel sensations within that stir them in inspiring ways, such as taking time to do something for their grandmother, or helping a elder person cross a busy street. I think that happiness is cultivated with experience, with knowledge, and with compassion. Love, when cultivated gently within the cellular form, makes way for amazing results on the outside. And this experiential awareness (feeling it in the body ) is what gives way to happiness.
2006-11-25 20:34:51 · answer #1 · answered by magnamamma 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love lasts for sometime so it still can be defined as a joy .It is a joy to find a perfect love.It can be romantic love, love of family and so on ......etc.Happiness can be obtained in many different ways .It can be obtained when you have fulfilled a duty ,It can be obtained when sorrow recedes or recovery from a disease. Generally if you are doing good all the time happiness becomes your habitat seeking knowledge bring happiness .Any positive development brings knowledge .The secret is to Keep finding tasks that requires more skills all the time .Doing something new all the time
2006-11-25 20:26:42 · answer #2 · answered by Shahzadi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happiness just doesn't mean loving someone and being happy to be with them ..you could be happy at work a place you love to be ..person can be happy for number of reasons .and these could last life time.. be a long lasting happiness in there lives .and experience dislikes or be unhappy in other things in their life ..
Happiness lasts as long as you can feel it ..
2006-11-25 20:50:50 · answer #3 · answered by JJ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is joy but not a short lived joy like you described but one that is with you constantly. You can feel sadness when love and you can still feel joy when feel sad because with true love all emotions are felt ,but not just in you but for others too therefore even when sad for yourself you can feel joy for others, and vice versa through love
2006-11-25 20:58:10 · answer #4 · answered by WW 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love leads to Happiness but if you truly are in Love with someone else, you will not want anything else in Life except that person and you will want to share every moment of your life with them. Now if your willing to do this with that person, then you must be happy and if you can't then your not in love.
2006-11-25 20:23:34 · answer #5 · answered by Chris C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe when you love anyone whether it's a mate or a family member, this person makes you happy, right or else you wouldn't want to be around this person. Love gives you motivation and lifts you up. Love urges you to do more for yourself (you and your mate are one) because whatever makes you happy makes her happy.
2006-11-25 23:20:10 · answer #6 · answered by Dimples 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because... even as your in love you're chuffed... yet in various of circumstances purely at the starting up... so i do not agree that love may reason lengthy-lasting happiness. everyone needs to experience loved and when we do it makes us chuffed. Love isn't something better than interest.
2016-11-29 19:16:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you have love in your heart, it will definitely be projected to the people around you, infecting them with the beauty love can bring.
a positive attitude, making others happy as well.
2006-11-25 20:19:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to be happy one must [want what they have] we do not always love there for we can not be happy in love unless we want it .
2006-11-26 04:11:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if u find the right person
2006-11-25 20:17:17 · answer #10 · answered by RIO10GAL 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋