Those who make pleasure-seeking the focus of their lives soon find themselves needing new and different sources of pleasure. It's like a drug addict who needs continually higher doses to get high. Happiness is a less intense but more durable feeling of well being. It's not a continuous state. No one's happy all the time.
Happiness is a kind of emotional resting place of quiet satisfaction with one's life.
The art of living a happy life is a balance between getting what you want and learning to want what you get. For KNX 1070, this is Michael Josephson reminding you that character counts. Take a Look at the View R ecently, I had the privilege of delivering a commencement address to graduates of the Pepperdine University School of Law. The setting was incredible - a grassy plateau carved into the Malibu mountains. The graduates and their families faced a vista of the coastline and the Pacific Ocean as deep into the western horizon as you could see.