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What is more important to you -- being happy or being content?
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Content, happiness is an elusive and volatile emotion. Contentment is a basis that allows for happiness, sadness, excitement and all the others interesting parts of life to be 'handled'.
instead of going into detail about how impossible it is to be one or the other, I will simply say that I want to be happy with my love, she deserves the best I can give her and so much more, and her happiness equals my happiness. ;)
Happy. You can't be content without being happy
Being happy with content but being happy over all. To be content in some respects is to be stagnent or have no drive for better. I don't ever really want content in this regard, but I want to be happy with the good in my life
Being happy. Content is just existing..... I want to be happy.
Happiness and contentment, to me, are two sides of the same coin. I can also say I am extremely happy AND content. I love my husband and my marriage! I am happy and content!
I believe happiness is a temporary moode in which it comes and goes like the wind. With contentment it's a peaceful happiness. I believe its a state instead of a passing mode. I'll take contentment by definition. =)
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Happy! I want to live life to the full
I'd rather be happy, because being happy automatically produces a sense of contentment.
Happy. Being content is nothing more than settling with what you have and not putting extra effort into your life to make more of it. Make like a happy experience. We only get one chance at it.
What she said!
Male, >50 years, Dating, NC, US | Jun 02, 2014
Male, >50 years, Dating, NC, US | Jun 02, 2014
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Being happy as a mug..
Contentment and Happiness are synonyms. Contentment however allows me to be emotionally satisfied whatever the circumstance or situation. Happiness is usually associated with some emotionally euphoric event and can change abruptly should the event or circumstance prove not to be favorable
I'd much rather be happy. Content is just existing day to day.
