It's relative.

It's relative.

It's short episodes in real life

Dear Marianne, you are asking if prolonged happiness a reality.  It's not so if our happiness can be removed by the cares of this life: our great work load, our relationships that need so much of our attention and time.  Perhaps it's those who have gone through dark periods, periods of depression, that know the value of seeking after righteousness, rather than happiness.  When I seek after righteousness, I am happy.  When I think about my own happiness, I am likely to get into some mild depression.  So my simple conclusion is to seek to do right, to be happy.  (This is my working weekend, because the workload is so much, but let it not darken our happiness.  Thanks.

At the time of birth creator desires type happiness is the birth right & that is why a child after his arrival on the earth either he cry or afterwards he also smiles for which he has retained with him the grace of his previous lives & when this come to his mind through destiny he smiles .

With this Happiness runs with us but with us we have with us PRIDE,ANGER,EGO ,JEALOUSY ATTACHMENT ,when this come in the surface of our mind we are losing the charm of our smile & changing our basic  natural temperament .

With this in which mode we have to shape our life depends entirely on us .

This is my personal opinion 

It depends as dear @Lijo has mentioned. My experience is that shorter duration of happiness is more intensive and vice versa. We may share some examples.

This is a question for teasing.

Happiness is a very relative thing - if one is really hungry it is enough bread and water, a spoiled person is not satisfied with caviar and champagne. The luck everyone must take care that it took as long as possible.

Happiness and sorrow not both survive in reality. Everything in this world is short lived; it depends on how you take it. In happiness, you'll not be able to know how time is past, but in grief, sorrow, etc., your mind will be only thinking about it, hence you think that sorrow is longer as compared to happiness. Everything has its own turn , depends on how we accept it. There is no such thing as short or long-lived, take it in your own stride & you can see the difference

Nothing is permanent, only change is continuous. A win-win strategy is not always practical, hence short run of good and bad is a balance

Happiness is a wide variation of the word. In essence when one refers to happiness; they are referring to a 'happen stance' or what has occurred in the situation that has made them happy or the circumstances in their lives. Thus 'happiness' is a mind-set (from my own perspective of being). One chooses how one will respond and/or react in a certain situation with either acceptance (which can aid in happiness) or non-acceptance (which can also aid in happiness; however, more-than-not, the opposite occurs).

For me personally; I feel that this is where one's faith come's into play. Does one regard his/her life as a 'happen-stance' or as a 'higher destined origin' that is already dominated and/or been determined by a higher calling/power in control?

There-In lies the answer to your question, I am certain...

@Ms Debbie Jean Lancaster,

I am little confused with your answer.

Are you referring that without faith true happiness is nothing more than a "happen-stance"?

If your assumption is true then without faith there is no true happiness. Then comes the question which faith to choose to have true happiness and why one faith is better over the others?

@ Shami Qazi:

Thank you for the chance to elaborate. I am sorry that I was not clear with my answer...

I will try better this time.

In short, I believe that 'happiness' is %10 of what happens to or in a person's daily living and %90 what one makes and/or chooses to respond/react to the happening or 'happen stance.' 

Thus leading to what one believes. Does one believe that life is just that and he/she controls his/her destiny or is there a belief of or in a higher power, whatever that power may be, such as in the Christian belief of Jesus, 

That is where faith plays a part.

Thus 'happiness' truly does  boil down to what one believes (whatever the belief may be) One can accept that the happenstance happened or one can refuse to.... One can choose to learn from happenings or one can choose not too.

As far as assuming that one can only be happy if one has faith; I do not. I believe that one must choose to decide if they wish to be happy or not and that happiness is a mind-set.

I hope this clear's this up for you.

I also believe happiness is a state of mind and most of the time its origin is ignored. Many of us consider it "something outside" we spend all our lives searching outside and hoarding unnecessary things to fill the void of our personal life.

The collection of things, precious or non-precious do relieve temporary the longing for happiness but it is very short lived. There are many blessed people among us who will find happiness in every aspect of life while living the life of modesty.

In order to find true happiness, one has to cross the line of "nothingness" to appreciate "being".

Happiness is close to  the degree of satisfaction in social and/or professional life

You have prolonged happiness when you taste the Grace....

One of the (few but relevant) gifts of getting older is to become more able to tune yourself in a resonant mode with Grace that comes from God...and this happens even if you do not believe in God (after all it is sufficient that God believes in you and not necessarily the other way around) but if you have a spiritual life it is incredibly much easier to get a satisfactory tuning....Not taking too seriously the world around you (while taking seriously your proximate) is another help for a good tuning...