"... any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already." - Henry David Thoreau

   "The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them." - Albert Einstein

   "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Krishnamurti

   "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato

   "Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods." - Socrates

   "He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche

   "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain

   "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr.

   "One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a    person entirely happy." - Aristotle

   "Your very silence shows you agree." - Euripides

11/11/2008

Y!A - How do you stay happy and content in this life?

Question asked originally on Yahoo! Answers - Original Link

My Answer:

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

People have been contemplating this question since the beginning of time. It is arguably the reason for the birth of Philosophy and technological evolution, after all, everything we do is to achieve happiness.

My answer?
To want what you have.

If you want what you have, then you have everything you want, and if you have everything you want then there's no way you can't be happy.

People today are controlled by their surroundings, constantly being told what to want, what happiness should mean, what beauty should be, ultimately driving them away from happiness by keeping them wanting more and more and never having everything they want.

Wanting what you have is not complacency, it's wisdom. If something good comes you way, great, take it and add it to the things you want. If something bad comes your way, take it, bad things are an essential part of life that provide you with the opportunity to learn something new: without problems there can't be solutions, without questions there can't be answers.
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