· What is happiness and what is the degree of importance in one’s life?

Question:before you find happiness you must find peace,then you can find joy,happiness isn't the same as joy.happiness is an emotion.everyone has different gifts.as for me i'm a writer,for someone else,it's feeding the homeless.my writings are christian poems and prayers.who can say one is more important than the other.both are valuable.i believe all we can do is what we know to do and not worry about the degree of importance.each one of us has to learn how to walk in our own shoes,not try to wear someone else's(they won't fit right)

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: before you find happiness you must find peace,then you can find joy,happiness isn't the same as joy.happiness is an emotion.everyone has different gifts.as for me i'm a writer,for someone else,it's feeding the homeless.my writings are christian poems and prayers.who can say one is more important than the other.both are valuable.i believe all we can do is what we know to do and not worry about the degree of importance.each one of us has to learn how to walk in our own shoes,not try to wear someone else's(they won't fit right)

Well it is important but it in itself is not the answer. There is respect for yourself, contentment, satisfaction, selflessness, giving and caring. For example, someone may decide to fight for their country. This may not make them happy but they respect themselves and are content with giving.

Content or truth and happiness has no degree of importance. It either is, or isn't.

happiness is a "necessary for survival" emotional response to seeing ones own values materialize.
Without it we die, or evolve out of existence. Pain is also essential to survival. Those that attempt to ignore or dull it, are training themselves to die quickly, becoming extinct.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any random manner, but will perish unless he lives as his nature requires, so he is free to seek his happiness in any mindless fraud, but the torture of frustration is all he will find, unless he seeks the happiness proper to man. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. Galt's Speech, For the New Intellectual, 123.

For me, happiness is both the motivation for positive action, and the result of positive action. Misery is such a cyclic thing... and can become very hard to break, unless another steps in to help.

Happiness, or true joy, gives meaning to life. If something does not make me or another person happy, then to me it has no value at all.

Personal happiness is of prime importance to me, unfortunately. I hope I can develop self-mastery, to cease to do foolish things that decrease joy in others, and in myself.

2 Nephi 2: 25 - http://scriptures.lds.org/en/2_ne/2/25#2...

25 Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have JOY.

Happiness is the whole purpose of our existence. Finding it, however, is difficult, so I follow that happiest of all beings - God - in order to walk the path of peace and joy.

Happiness is a state of mind. The hard part in knowing how to get it.
It must be very important because everyone wants to reach it.

Happiness in my definition is the sense that your will is being satisfied. You can't get much happier than when you are either working on a goal you want to achieve on your own terms, or a goal has been completed. If your will is not being impressed in some way, and there is no hope that it will be, then you will be unhappy and may try to take your own life. The degree of importance is very high.

peace in heart mind comes first once you have those happiness arrives in abundance, then the love within yourself, and the wisdom to pass it on to others