Happiness is affected by internal feelings and external factors.

I believe that both are necessary. However, internal factors excel the external ones.

dear professor@Reza Biria, I could not agree more. best

Happiness is an inner feeling that results from the realization of a range of wishes that the person seeks to achieve. This happiness also arises when we or our children achieve success in professional or academic work and other matters of life. Happiness is an internal feeling that reflects external contextual factors.

The concept of happiness varies from one person to another, and it differs in its definition of philosophers as well. It is a relative term. A person may be pleased with something that is common to others. this is because of the external factors for each person

Internal feelings lead to look external world in joyful way; moreover, external factors can become the reasons of internal happiness.

True happiness is within each of us, and that the positive conditions that provide us with moments of joy can be realized only through our sense of happiness and work to reach and translate them in ways that correspond to our personalities and our patterns.

Thank you for inviting me to answer your question.

For many persons, happiness is synonymous with success or achievement or pleasure or escaping a difficult situation. I disagree with all of them because celebrating these "events" is usually momentary & there is no guarantee that the desire to become content is fulfilled.

Furthermore, every person has events happening in his/her life that really hurt such as the death of a beloved one, abuse, discrimination, poverty, depression, to name a few.

It is hard to have hope sometimes, and we find ourselves fighting to stay positive. Sometimes, maybe most of the time, we cannot reach positivism so we feel abandoned, alone, and neglected by our closest relatives & friends especially at old age.

You may be surprised to know that there was a discussion about "happiness" in one of my classes , when I was a college student in 1971.

I reached this conclusion through the years by dividing this life into : The Creator & the created. I cannot count on the created all the time so I placed my trust in my God trying to please him all the time & He never let me down. I really found the true path to happiness in my inner feelings but this arrived by external factors by the mercy of my Lord. I think that I am content & the song (Let it Be by The Beatles) has become my incessant slogan.

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Both play a part and influence each other. Also happiness is a relative term. People in Bhutan are supposedly one of the happiest people on the earth. Sometimes if you lead a simple life and are content with the status quo, you are more than happy compared to someone else who has all the wealth in the world. Internal happiness is longer lasting since one is more in control of oneself than the environment which is impossible to predict

Certainly happiness is due to internal feelings

Best Regards Farangis Shahidzade

Desde mi punto de vista, la felicidad nunca es una emoción. Sin embargo, emoción y sentimiento están profundamente relacionados. Un sentimiento es una emoción hecha consciente (Bisquerra, 2017: 23). Varios autores señalan que el sentimiento es un componente cognitivo de la emoción (Arias, 2016:55).

Es decir, si asumimos que entra la conciencia en juego, ambos factores- externos e internos- son clave a la hora de conformar la felicidad. La pregunta que podríamos hacer es:¿qué va primero? Yo obtengo estímulos externos que me provocan una emoción, los hago conscientes, los asimilo, entra en juego la razón e, internamente obtengo determinados sentimientos con los que conformo mi felicidad.

there is a mistake in the question. It assumes there must be an 'or'.

I agree with Nazia Asad

both but the internal feeling is the basis, it is the true source of happiness

Both internal and external factors

I think both of them

Happiness is affected by internal feelings and external factors.

Internal feelings are the most important factor that let us looking for everything around us with love.

Both of them!

"Be happy and be the reason for the happiness of others, make one person happy each day. Bring smile on the face of others with your Good words, Good deeds, and Good behavior." Prakash Singh Happiness is the state of mind which is governed by both internal as well as external factors. Prakash Singh The way to keep ourselves happy is to link it with some motives and accomplishments. Once you achieve it, do the thing(Your Favorite Hobby) or follow the passion which makes you happy. Prakash Singh

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I agree with Nazia Asad.