Concept of happiness and joy

Concept of happiness and joy. Happiness is different than pleasure. Pleasures instant gratification that lasts as long as the pleasure lasts. Happiness is an experience. Happiness is usually associated with fulfillment, or growth namely self growth. Exercise for people is to list all the times that they have felt true happiness and in what context that was. This should be differentiated from pleasure. While growth and fulfillment provide happiness, it should be noted that growth and fulfillment are processes and not necessarily an end. So happiness should be viewed as part of a journey (The book The Power of Fun by Catherine Price is a very simple, but thought provoking guide on how to differentiate the two)

— from The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)

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The third is mistaking motion for meaning, and pleasure for fulfillment. Pleasure is instant and shallow; it runs on the endless cycle of desire and consumption that the old thinkers called hedonism, and it can never fill the hole, because satisfying a craving only breeds the next one. The man who chases it spends all day saving the world's opinion of him while starving the actual life he was given. — The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)

And it is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is instant gratification that lasts exactly as long as the pleasure does; happiness runs deeper, bound up with growth and fulfillment, and it is a journey rather than an endpoint. Put it as an image: happiness is not making it to the peak of the mountain, nor is it wandering aimlessly around the base — happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak. — Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)

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