What matters more: happiness or contentment?

[Gary Childress]

I don't have much to add to the title. For the longest time I suspected that happiness mattered more, but now I no longer know. Your thoughts?

To be content is to be satisfied with what is experienced or held. For the sake of sanity, contentment is better. To become happy may require ambition and motivation. For the sake of progress, happiness is better.

Well said.

[Age]

I don't have much to add to the title. For the longest time I suspected that happiness mattered more, but now I no longer know. Your thoughts?

To be content is to be satisfied with what is experienced or held. For the sake of sanity, contentment is better. To become happy may require ambition and motivation. For the sake of progress, happiness is better.

One could also just as easily and simply say and claim,

To be happy is to be satisfied with what is experienced or held. For clarity sake of sanity, happiness is better. To become content may require ambition and motivation. For the sake of progress, contentment is better.

What matters more depends on the individual.

[Walker]

For the sake of progress, happiness is better.

And for the sake of amore.

Happiness turned into sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkz7aEj ... i0&index=3

[Martin Peter Clarke]

What matters most is gratitude.

[commonsense]

What matters more depends on the individual.

Yes.

[Age]

What matters more depends on the individual.

Yes.

By the way, 'my take' on 'this discussion' is, also, to be content is to be satisfied, with absolutely every thing. And, when one is content, then they would also be happy, with every thing, as well.

Now, and as with all emotions, like contentment and happiness for example, they are all just 'signs', signals, and sign posts, of what is 'going on' around an individual.

So, as 'we' both pointed out, here, to become happy, and thus content, would require ambition, and motivation, or in other words, require 'change', itself. So, for the sake of 'progress' a desire, and/or a drive, to become happy, or happier, and thus content, is needed. Which just naturally exists anyway.

That one does not yet 'feel' happy nor content is a 'sign', and 'signal', of what needs 'changing', in Life.

Now, one might not, yet, be living in a 'perfect world' but one can still be happy, and content, just as long as 'the world' keeps always 'changing' ,for the better. If every one is 'progressing', and moving towards, making 'life', itself, better for every one, that is, moving towards 'a world' in which every one desires and wants to live with, and in, then happiness and contentment can be 'felt', and equally.

Now, the 'sign posts' that 'we' are moving towards what 'it' is, exactly, which all want and desire, are the emotions, within. So, if 'we' are not yet always 'feeling' Truly happy and Truly content, then that is 'the sign' that 'we' are not yet on the Right TRACK, in Life, and that some thing needs 'a changing', for the sake of 'progress', as you said and pointed out.

'our' 'sign posts' that 'we' are on the 'Right TRACK', in Life, are 'emotions', themselves.

If happiness or contentment matters more , again, this depends solely on 'the individual', but if any one is not yet Truly and fully happy, and, content, in Life, then some thing needs 'changing'.

For the sake of 'sanity', 'feeling' happy, and, content is needed, and wanted. Continual 'progress' towards the betterment of, and for, every one is what rises contentment, and happiness.

Continually moving, and progressing, toward a Truly peaceful and harmonious world, for everyone, as One, is what brings about happiness and contentment.

Having created and achieved a Truly peaceful and harmonious world, for every one, as One, then this is when one is Truly satisfied, and has reached both True happiness and True contentment, where both have actually, always, 'mattered' equally.