(03-17-2014, 02:44 PM)Matt1 Wrote: We always try and get the next fix of happiness from an external source believing that it will make us happy but each of these desires when for-filled is short lived. Its really the same mentality as drug addict looking to get his or her next temporary fix. Sure its a little less exterm in most cases but the root cause is the same.
This is because we don't know ourselves. And we don't know what hapiness really is. Hapiness is not a perpetual feeling of joy, to be happy includes the possibility of being sad. There is a great quote of German psychoanalyst Erich Fromm which expresses this. He writes that "one cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
(03-17-2014, 02:44 PM)Matt1 Wrote: When say we want to be happy we are really saying we want to be loved.
This is a deep quote...
Edit: After thinking about it, I would just change it a little bit: When we say we want to be happy we are really saying we want to love.