Friday, March 4, 2011

Success is no guarantee of happiness. The only guarantee of happiness is happiness.

22 comments:

  1. Agreed. I am reminded of the saying 'beware what you wish for, it might come true'.....

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  2. I think happiness helps to foster success, but the reverse is not necessarily true.

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  3. Happiness is in our own mind, success help a lot because we wants conquer goals like any man but happiness is a special decision in our personal view. A man with less "things" than others can be happy and a man with a lot of "things" unhappy, all depends of each human being and his concepts, in what make him truly happy. Greetings! Mario.

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  4. This is a one of those universal truths I like right along the lines of my favorite: "If nothing changes, everything stays the same."

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  5. Right. Now if only we could figure out what makes us truly happy we'd be all set. But I think you already told us.

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  6. But what is success? Is it really success if we aren't happy?

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  7. Very very true.
    Thanks my friend, for enlightening me.
    God bless.

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  8. Exactly right.
    Although Martureo has a very good point. Having money and being in a place of power may seem successful, but maybe it is just the illusion of success...
    If that person is not happy where he/she is, then they probably don't feel as successful on a deeper, emotional level. Their lives could still be quite empty.

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  9. Well, that is certainly true! Unless your ultimate goal us happiness. If your are successful and achieve your goal, you will be happy!!

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  10. I guess it all depends on what you think you want in order to be happy. For me, I think that I am mostly happy just to be.

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  11. Success is no guarantee of happiness...if you want happiness, go and buy a toaster...and get a three-year guarantee.

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  12. That's for sure. And even happiness can be allusive; Here today, gone tomorrow. It is a mysterious and wonderful thing altogether.

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  13. Always very deeply inspiring Marty. "The only guarantee of happiness is happiness" Hopefully, with practice, we can do without any "guarantee". Grateful

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  14. it denotes the fact that happiness does not belong to outer world. it is about internal feeling we have for life.

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  15. As ever, so true. Success pays the bills, and may allay some anxieties, but happiness is another matter entirely. I think we have to learn to be happy, which is just being in the moment.

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  16. Very true indeed. Happiness has to come from yourself, being relaxed and making the best of it etc. Although success or money must make being miserable better though.

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  17. And even then there's no guarantee it will last.

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  18. Happiness is relative. Our individual differences determine why someone maybe happy whilst the other one is not given the same stimuli.

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  19. IMO there is no guarantee of happiness aside from the individual's determination to choose to be happy no matter what their circumstances are. Every failure can become a stepping stone to duture success, yet there's almost an unwritten assumption that it is primarily success that leads to happiness. The two can be interrelated but it's not an either/or situation. So when I hear those who speak about how success leads to happiness I am keenly aware that they are ignoring half of the story.

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  20. Unless we feel happiness one can never really be sure...a feeling of emptiness still haunts us if we don't feel the happiness that was expected to follow the accomplishment..

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