Human beings are social animals. They will be happy only when they are surrounded by near and dear ones. His inherent faculties also will be developed if he lives in society. Education, wealth which are essential to live comfortable life will also attained if he lives in society. Hence, society makes him happy.

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

I would like to introduce you to someone. This person is beautiful, caring, intelligent, lovable, generous, talented, inspiring, funny and although not perfect a wonderful human being and contributor to society.

If you look into mirror you will see this person for yourself but not as you have always seen them. Try to see this person as the individual I previously described.

Despite what your own thoughts maybe there are certain truths about who you are, how you look and your place in life that cannot be denied.

When you begin to accept these truths you can begin to heal your life and move forward in fulfilling your personal destiny.

I always say that you don’t need to be happy to date. In fact, being unhappy and complaining about life brings more people together everyday than real joy. If you choose however, not to follow the status quo consider doing the following:

• Raise your emotional intelligence by identifying your own personal truth.
• Create love and acceptance of yourself.
• Abolish feelings of fear, unworthiness and dissatisfaction with life.

I say, If you are happy with yourself , I am happy too ( ie the society will be so happy as well ).

When we talk of people management, we often talk of individual values in formation of one's personality. Internalization of values in individuals is function of many variables, including the social framework in which the individual lives. To a good extent, the individual's feeds back into the society. The societal culture and  personal &parental values, no doubt, are some of the most important variables in making our life fulfilling and happy.

Dear Shafagat, I think that happiness is found in an eternal loving God, in having the sense of reconciliation with God, through forgiveness of sin.  A society where many have this peace within themselves is happy, as the individual who has this reconciliation and peace within the self is happy.  Thanks.

Basically, humans are wired for personal connections. Close relationships and social connections keep us happy and healthy. there has been studies which demonctrate the importance of relationship in being snad staying happy.(link 1)

Happiness research has shown that human relations are crucial for people’s well-being. There are many kinds of relationships which emerge from the social organization people live in.

People are socially immersed and, in consequence, their relation to others is crucial. The importance of human relations is such that William James argued in his Principles of Psychology that the worst punishment for somebody is not physical torture but to go by life being completely unnoticed by everyone else.(link 2)

.Source:

Rojas, M., & López, I. I. (2014). Happiness and Human Relations: The Role of Materialistic Values. An ABM Illustration. IJIMAI, 2(5), 24-31.

http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/what-technology-cant-change-about-happiness

http://www.ijimai.org/journal/sites/default/files/files/2014/03/ijimai20132_5_3_pdf_38475.pdf

We live everyday by supporting each other. This means the importance of society. However, society is not all of our life, as is well described by the following quotes:

"The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored." —Jean de la Bruyere

"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An individual without society will tend to be a living machine in the wonderland         ( Wonderful things exist in this world ).  Human personality is shaped by the surrounding environment and society. Society influences the individual's value system and shapes the character. Since the advent of civilization, human beings started developing social feelings, building relationships, caring and sharing with fellows and thus contributing to the development and progress. Happiness is a state of mind and begets happiness. Happiness lies within oneself in one's feelings, emotions and comprehension.

The communities who enjoy the communion and teamwork feel happy, social and human nature, but this feature is different from person to person, according to the family , a street or a specific area connected with the traditions,

Dear All,

Impressions provided by societal channels can improve satisfaction feelings.   The problem is that mainstream models are highly influenced and can be manipulated by politicians and the often hand controlled media.  I would not call this mainstream satisfaction happiness. In summary, merely just and ethical societies can make people happy. See the folk wandering these days. Are refugees happy in their original countries?

Happiness comes from inner peace

Being in harmony with society and having good relatinship with others certanely helps. Here is 2 beautiful quotes:

Victor Hugo  defines the the greatest happiness of life as the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

" If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion".

- The Dalai Lama

Society makes a person happy?

When people interact positively in society think they will feel happiness.  However, one of the by-products of society (with multitude & various types of people) will generate politics as some people click better & some don't seem to see eye to eye.  Different political ideologies can yield man-made conflicts.  Happiness can turn to sadness.

It depends on interpersonal relations.

Happiness may be the result of being good at family, in friendly groups, and in larger society.

First one has to be good for society!

Sometimes ok but not all times.

Happiness/sadness - what is the feeling, it is inbuilt within ourselves only. It depends upon how much  we are flexible to adopt/adjust with external environment. Some people won't bother about anything and capable to enjoy each and every moment by accepting whatever comes in their way. Some people will spoil the whole day for spilling even few drops of coffee instead of wiping the spillage with little piece of tissue.

In the above, what type of person are you?

Society - always somebody is there to think differently in the opposite side to make your life........????

What about the hermits, anchorites?

It seems, the Paterikons, the texts of Desert Theology were written by happy people. 

"Happiness" is a situation that constantly changes! The reasons for the change are various, society being one. I can imagine a person living alone in the mountains and being in happy equilibrium. On the other hand people living in a modern society have a lot of reasons to be out of balance and thus not happy! As a consequence, it seems that "society" does not play the main reason for being in a happy equilibrium!   

In the corrupt society a career success is determined by an influential uncle.A simple personality can hope only on his/her nearest,whom he/she has a right to choose.The idea "we are poor,but proud" doesn't work as a definition of happiness even if there are the good and bright people around, who highly appreciate the talents of the simple personality. 

It works both ways. Without society, there is no existence of individual, individuals together make a society. Generally, people live in society, have friends, circles and family which make them happy. On the other side, as Irina pointed out it very often makes us sad when we unfairly denied what we deserve, injustice and people go on killing spree of innocents make us sad. But, society has always been like this way and we survive in it.

Happiness is a state of positive emotion that is due to the balance or  coherency of expectations or desires and their actualization within - self and outside-society or family or environment. If what we expect or desire from outside turns upside down then it may negatively affect our emotions and creates sadness than happiness specially when we use less reasoning.  Here when I say reasoning, it is not just to tame our  cognitive faculty to forget or underscore the negatives but to produce reasons as to why things behave that way.

To know the grand scheme of things in nature that chaos rules, also gives some cushion to reduce the recurrences of unhappiness  due to outside parameters and results within due to failures of our expectations. It is also a natural mechanism that occurrences of such events of emotions strengthen our cognitive  faculty to be more receptive and increase a capacity to create reasons in order to reduce unhappiness in a particular environment. 

In other words,social Darwinism: "there is all for "ours", and a law-for others".

One may live in a society & be very much involved on many fronts but all this does not guarantee that happiness will be forthcoming. In our country, we become happy when nothing in particular is happening (As the English saying : No news is good news !) and this is our default happiness! Normally, when something is happening – good or bad- then happiness rises or falls accordingly. However, we live here in an abnormal situation in which painful & suffering experiences are expected every day. When radio or TV news are all about other countries, then you can observe some relief among the people but this rarely happens. In these rare cases, the society has diverse ideas & activities that bring about joy & pleasure which are a step forward towards happiness for all.  

Happiness comes from whitin. Effect of outside effects (like society) are limited.

.Happy People have the following:

• Positive Mindset: Optimism, Mindfulness and Gratitude
• Good relationships (social ties -- indicator of happiness),
• Spiritual Engagement and Meaning(a perceived quest or belonging to something bigger),
• Accomplishments (having realized tangible goals).
• Pleasure 
• Engagement (challenging activity)

"Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy"

                                                                              - Dada Vaswani

"Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own"

                                                                              - Plato

Man is a rational & social animal .He can not remain in isolation .Every person is the creator of the society & society is within in every person .

Society can make a person happy but depending on the individual person society can create a tears in the eyes of person .

With this we are a creator of our happiness it depends entirely on us .If we are individually not happy we can not afford to blame the society for our happiness.

A very strong Factor in human Society is acknowledgement of The individuals by others. This will not work to acknowledgement yourself  by yourself. Therefore Society makes us happy

Human social in origin and upbringing, but my instincts in the messy, nature and psychology, and therefore can not isolate himself from society and can not without its society. That there must be a balance in the dialectical relationship between the individual and the individual's social relations.

‘The conflict that occurs in the community between the individual and individualism Ajtmaeith, reflected on the nature of the rule that governs the community, as well as its impact on the prevailing ideas and ideologies.”…. Aristotle

Dear Shafagat,

The answer lies within each of us, searching for happiness and inner peace. It is hard work to build a powerful relationship with the most important person in our life – ourselves!

Kind regards!  

The more developed societies have the highest suicide rate and the less developed societies have the highest murder rate

Dear Colleagues:

Happiness does not depend only on the characteristics and situation of the individual, but also on the society in which we live. The wealthiest societies tend to be the happiest and the poorest tend to be the least happy, but other factors also intervene. 

The linked news on the World Happiness Report --including e global happiness map-- is very interesting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/09/10/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-happiest-and-least-happy-countries/

Yes society has a major role to keep and make us happy, Socio-economic bindings must be strong to keep our society cheerful and happy. Group festivals and occasions will help us grow in a healthy society. Upbringing of kids in a healthy and cheerful society is essential.

It depends on the preference of the individual. 

Society plays a significant role in a person's happiness but most important factor is the person's take on different social events. If he is involved a lot and responding each and everything happening in society then his happiness can vary as per the situation. 

Bhutan is the only country to measure happiness (Gross National Happiness) as a socioeconomic development model based on Buddhist spiritual values. "Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product" (Jigme Singye Wangchuck, king of Bhutan; slogan on a wall in Thimphu's School of Traditional Arts)

Yes. Society makes a person happy. Also, all the surroundings means people, environment, time etc. play a lot of importance role to the happiness of a person.

Dear José,

I think one cannot mix happiness with satisfaction. This is fact that in a rich country it is easier to become happy. However, in rich countries one can often observe burnout and depression as psychological syndromes of over industrialized societies. Another trouble may be alienation = the separation of human mind.

Dear RG-s,

"Life expectancy,social connections,personal freedom and the economy all play a role in happiness,don't they?" A life of an every human being is the most important value.Life is given once.Every human being has a right to live up to his/her expectations."Switzerland,Iceland,Denmark,Norway,Canada were the top five happiest countries.The report aims to provide policymakers around the world with new metrics that place a higher emphasis on subjective well-being" Other words, facts and reasons are manipulation of folk consciousness so that a corrupt person can justify his/her own success and happiness in life.                              http://time.com/3833081/happiest-people-world/.

Happiness and social relationships

People who have one or more close friendships appear to be happier. It doesn’t seem to matter if we have a large network of close relationships or not. What seems to make a difference is if, and how often, we cooperate in activities and share our personal feelings as well as provide support to a friend or relative. Simply put, it’s not the quantity of our relationships, but the quality that matters.

http://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/science-of-happiness/communicating/

The interactions we have with other people affect the way we feel about life. Our close relationships keep us grounded and influence both happiness and the sense that we are part of a larger community. Interestingly, even our interactions with people we do not know that well give us a sense that we are part of that larger community. When we are first introduced to that community, those interactions and that feeling of belonging also increase our happiness.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201407/why-other-people-are-the-key-our-happiness

The answer depends of if the society is oriented to the commun well, and then yes, or if the society is oriented to competitive desvinculated individualism, and then very possibly not.

Depends on his environment and culture, if he is grown up in an isolated single family he may be happy without socializing, but a Joint Family person prefer and remain happy while intermingling with their society.

The human being and the group. The problem of man cannot be solved scientifically without a clear statement of the relationship between man and society, as seen in the primary collectivity—the family, the play or instruction group, the production team and other types of formal or informal collectivity. In the family the individual abandons some of his specific features to become a member of the whole. The life of the family is related to the division of labour according to sex and age, the carrying on of husbandry, mutual assistance in everyday life, the intimate life of man and wife, the perpetuation of the race, the upbringing of the children and also various moral, legal and psychological relationships. The family is a crucial instrument for the development of personality. It is here that the child first becomes involved in social life, absorbs its values and standards of behaviour, its ways of thought, language and certain value orientations. It is this primary group that bears the major responsibility to society. Its first duty is to the social group, to society and humanity. Through the group the child, as he grows older, enters society. Hence the decisive role of the group. The influence of one person on another is as a rule extremely limited; the collectivity as a whole is the main educational force. Here the psychological factors are very important. It is essential that a person should feel himself part of a group at his own wish, and that the group should voluntarily accept him, take in his personality.

Everybody performs certain functions in a group. Take, for example, the production team. Here people are joined together by other interests as well as those of production; they exchange certain political, moral, aesthetic, scientific and other values. A group generates public opinion, it sharpens and polishes the mind and shapes the character and will. Through the group a person rises to the level of a personality, a conscious subject of historical creativity. The group is the first shaper of the personality, and the group itself is shaped by society.

The unity of man and society. A person's whole intellectual make-up bears the clear imprint of the life of society as a whole. All his practical activities are individual expressions of the historically formed social practice of humanity. The implements that he uses have in their form a function evolved by a society which predetermines the ways of using them. When tackling any job, we all have to take into account what has already been achieved before us.

The wealth and complexity of the individual's social content are conditioned by the diversity of his links with the social whole, the degree to which the various spheres of the life of society have been assimilated and refracted in his consciousness and activity. This is why the level of individual development is an indicator of the level of development of society, and vice versa. But the individual does not dissolve into society. He retains his unique and independent individuality and makes his contribution to the social whole: just as society itself shapes human beings, so human beings shape society.

The individual is a link in the chain of the generations. His affairs are regulated not only by himself, but also by the social standards, by the collective reason or mind. The true token of individuality is the degree to which a certain individual in certain specific historical conditions has absorbed the essence of the society in which he lives.

Consider, for instance, the following historical fact. Who or what would Napoleon Bonaparte have been if there had been no French Revolution? It is difficult or perhaps even impossible to reply to this question. But one thing is quite clear—he would never have become a great general and certainly not an emperor. He himself was well aware of his debt and in his declining years said, "My son cannot replace me. I could not replace myself. I am the creature of circumstances."[1] It has long been acknowledged that great epochs give birth to great men. What tribunes of the people were lifted by the tide of events of the French Revolution— Mirabeau, Marat, Robespierre, Danton. What young, some times even youthful talents that had remained dormant among the people were raised to the heights of revolutionary, military, and organisational activity by the Great October Socialist Revolution.

It is sometimes said that society carries the individual as a river carries a boat. This is a pleasant simile, but not exact. An individual does not float with the river; he is the turbulently flowing river itself. The events of social life do not come about by themselves; they are made. The great and small paths of the laws of history are blazed by human effort and often at the expense of human blood. The laws of history are not charted in advance by superhuman forces; they are made by people, who then submit to their authority as something that is above the individual.

The key to the mysteries of human nature is to be found in society. Society is the human being in his social relations, and every human being is an individual embodiment of social relations, a product not only of the existing social system but of all world history. He absorbs what has been accumulated by the centuries and passed on through traditions. Modern man carries within himself all the ages of history and all his own individual ages as well. His personality is a concentration of various strata of culture. He is influenced not only by modern mass media, but also by the writings of all times and every nation. He is the living memory of history, the focus of all the wealth of knowledge, abilities, skills, and wisdom that have been amassed through the ages.

Man is a kind of super-dense living atom in the system of social reality. He is a concentration of the actively creative principle in this system. Through myriads of visible and invisible impulses the fruit of people's creative thought in the past continues to nourish him and, through him, contemporary culture.

Sometimes the relation between man and society is interpreted in such a way that the latter seems to be something that goes on around a person, something in which he is immersed. But this is a fundamentally wrong approach. Society does, of course, exist outside the individual as a kind of social environment in the form of a historically shaped system of relations with rich material and spiritual culture that is independent of his will and consciousness. The individual floats in this environment all his life. But society also exists in the individual himself and could not exist at all, apart from the real activity of its members. History in itself does nothing. Society possesses no wealth whatever. It fights no battles. It grows no grain. It produces no tools for making things or weapons for destroying them. It is not society as such but man who does all this, who possesses it, who creates everything and fights for everything. Society is not some impersonal being that uses the individual as a means of achieving its aims. All world history is nothing but the daily activity of individuals pursuing their aims. Here we are talking not about the actions of individuals who are isolated and concerned only with themselves, but about the actions of the masses, the deeds of historical personalities and peoples. An individual developing within the framework of a social system has both a certain dependence on the whole system of social standards and an autonomy that is an absolutely necessary precondition for the life and development of the system. The measure of this personal autonomy is historically conditioned and depends on the character of the social system itself. Exceptional rigidity in a social system (fascism, for example) makes it impossible or extremely difficult for individual innovations in the form of creative activity in various spheres of life to take place, and this inevitably leads to stagnation.

The relationships between the individual and society in history. To return once again to the simile of the river. The history of humankind is like a great river bearing its waters into the ocean of the past. What is past in life does not become something that has never been. No matter how far we go from the past, it still lives to some extent in us and with us. From the very beginning, the character of the man-society relationship changed substantially in accordance with the flow of historical time. The relationship between the individual and a primitive horde was one thing. Brute force was supreme and instincts were only slightly controlled, although even then there were glimpses of moral standards of cooperation without which any survival, let alone development, would have been impossible. In tribal conditions people were closely bound by ties of blood. At that time there were no state or legal relationships. Not the individual but the tribe, the genus, was the law-giver. The interests of the individual were syncretised with those of the commune. In the horde and in tribal society there were leaders who had come to the fore by their resourcefulness, brains, agility, strength of will, and so on. Labour functions were divided on the basis of age and sex, as were the forms of social and other activity. With the development of the socium an ever increasing differentiation of social functions takes place. People acquire private personal rights and duties, personal names, and a constantly growing measure of personal responsibility. The individual gradually becomes a personality, and his relations with society acquire an increasingly complex character. When the society based on law and the state first arose, people were sharply divided between masters and slaves, rulers and ruled. Slave society with its private property set people against one another. Some individuals began to oppress and exploit others.

Feudal society saw the emergence of the hierarchy of castes, making some people totally dependent on others. On the shoulders of the common toiler there grew up an enormous parasitic tree with kings or tsars at its summit. This pyramid of social existence determined the rights and duties of its citizens, and the rights were nearly all at the top of the social scale. This was a society of genuflection, where not only the toilers but also the rulers bowed the knee to the dogma of Holy Scripture and the image of the Almighty.

The age of the Renaissance was a hymn to the free individual and to the ideal of the strong fully developed human being blazing trails of discovery into foreign lands, broadening the horizons of science, and creating masterpieces of art and technical perfection. History became the scene of activity for the enterprising and determined individual. Not for him the impediments of the feudal social pyramid, where the idle wasted their lives and money, enjoying every privilege, and the toilers were kept in a state of subjugation and oppression. At first came the struggle for freedom of thought, of creativity. This grew into the demand for civil and political freedom, freedom of private initiative and social activity in general.

As a result of the bourgeois revolutions that followed, the owners of capital acquired every privilege, and also political power. The noble demand that had been inscribed on the banners of the bourgeois revolutions—liberty, equality and fraternity—turned out to mean an abundance of privileges for some and oppression for others. Individualism blossomed forth, an individualism in which everybody considered himself the hub of the universe and his own existence and prosperity more important than anyone else's. People set themselves up in opposition to other people and to society as a whole. Such mutual alienation is a disease that corrupts the social whole. The life of another person, even one's nearest, becomes no more than a temporary show, a passing cloud. The growing bureaucracy, utilitarianism and technologism in culture considerably narrow the opportunities for human individuality to express and develop itself. The individual becomes an insignificant cog in the gigantic machine controlled by capital. Alienation makes itself felt with particular force.

What is alienation? It is the conversion of the results of physical and intellectual activity into forces that get out of human control and, having gained the whip hand, strike back at their own creators, the people. It is a kind of jinn that people summon to their aid and then find themselves unable to cope with. Thus, the state which arose in slave society, became a force that oppressed the mass of the people, an apparatus of coercion by one class over another. The science that people venerate, that brings social progress and is in itself the expression of this progress, becomes in its material embodiment a lethal force that threatens all mankind. How much has man created that exerts a terrible pressure on his health, his mind and his willpower! These supra-personal forces, which are the product of people's joint social activity and oppress them, are the phenomenon known as alienation.

The thinkers of the past, who were truly dedicated to the idea of benefiting the working folk, pointed out the dangers of a system governed by the forces of alienation, a system in which some people live at the expense of other people's labour, where human dignity is flouted and man's physical and intellectual powers drained by exploitation.

The individual is free where he not only serves as a means of achieving the goals of the ruling class and its party but is himself the chief goal of society, the object of all its plans and provisions. The main condition for the liberation of the individual is the abolition of exploitation of one individual by another, of hunger and poverty, and the reassertion of man's sense of dignity. This was the kind of society of which the utopian socialists and the founders of scientific socialism dreamed. In contrast to bourgeois individualism, socialist collectivism starts off from the interests of the individual— not just the chosen few but all genuine working people. Socialism everywhere requires striking, gifted personalities with plenty of initiative. A person with a sense of perspective is the highest ideal of the creative activity of the socialist society.

Reference: Dialectical Materialism (A. Spirkin)

Chapter 5. On the Human Being and Being Human

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/spirkin/works/dialectical-materialism/ch05-s04.html

Only the truth saves in all society. For this, the truth is necessary for the happiness in the society.

It depends how we define happiness. Some people feel happy when they have money or big money outside society's behavior, others feel happy with their family or children and sometimes scarify for them, others feel happy with their job or business and others feel happy enjoying leisure and spending money. Sometimes society's organization is not source or cause of happiness. However a modern and free society with several facilities and opportunities is more able to bring some happiness to the majority of people.

My opinion is that we should firstly be happy in our primary society: our family.

Satisfaction and harmony in self makes man happy.

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

“One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy.”

                                                                  ~SWEDISH PROVERB

"Indeed governments do not create happiness.  But, they do influence conditions that enrich or narrow our lives.

And remember, rich men too have narrow lives.  How much can we enjoy life when we are daily separated by car windows and personal assistants who keep us away from the people sharing our streets and the mysteries of unmatched socks?

A happy country is a country where we weep when others weep and smile when others smile.

A happy country is a country where winners celebrate losers because without willing losers, there is no race to win.

In a happy country delight leads to compassion, surprise leads to curiosity and our days are balanced between strangers and intimates.

Measure the size of our cup carved from joy and sorrow"

_ Khalil Gibran

http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org/2...lil-gibran-and-the-happiness-index/

Khalil Gibran and The Happiness Index | flowing motion

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it."

                                                           -----   Barbara Sher

Jointly and comined we make a society. It is we who are individually responsible to make ourself happy. Society is the medium only. IF we are indiviadually not happy and can not create happiness around us, what society can do ??

“A person who has cultivated his inner capacity for goodness, when wishing for himself to be set up properly, sets the people up properly, and when wishing for himself to succeed, makes the people succeed.”

-Confucius

“But isn’t a life based on seeking personal happiness by nature self-centered, even self-indulgent? Not necessarily. In fact, survey after survey has shown that it is unhappy people who tend to be most self-focused and are often socially withdrawn, brooding, and even antagonistic. Happy people, in contrast, are generally found to be more sociable, flexible, and creative and are able to tolerate life’s daily frustrations more easily than unhappy people. And, most important, they are found to be more loving and forgiving than unhappy people.”

― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living

“happiness is determined more by one’s state of mind than by external events.”

― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living

Men makes the society and if the men are not happy, what can a society do? Making the men happy depends on the individuals and also as a group or bigger group of society. A lot will depend on the individuals and the societal leaders. Ofcourse the impact of happiness will be there from the society to be seen !! 

People are not sad or happy by nature, there are positive people who achieve constructive objectives and negative ones who focus on their navel. So when a society is badly ruled or ruled by who are more interested by their navels, many dis-functioning in the society appear and make people's lives sad. No one could live alone even who pay others for all his/her daily duties

it depends on the society. if We  are in the company of happy, kind and caring people, there is a great chance that we will be happier. 

In general, happiness come from inside. In the same society, we will find  happy and sad persons. This is true even for persons with similar background and interest (A faculty for example).

Beautiful excerpts from the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda

The greatest of all happiness, next to divine happiness, is to be at peace with one’s immediate relations, those with whom one must live every day in the year. When people try to handle the extremely complicated machinery of human feelings without any training whatsoever, the consequent results are often disastrous. Very few persons realize that most of our happiness lies in the art of understanding the law of human behavior. That is why so many people are often “in hot water” with their friends, and, worse yet, at constant war with their own best beloved ones at home.

If you want to be loved, start loving others who need your love....If you want others to sympathize with you, start showing sympathy to those around you. If you want to be respected, you must learn to be respectful to everyone, both young and old....Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself; then you will find others responding in like manner to you.

Understanding how a multicultural society can be best

http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/archives/approaching_buddhism/interreligious_dialogue_and_harmony/developing_a_healthy_society/developing_a_healthy_society.html

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

Please, see what "Sam Veda" said about "Happiness" when people deal with "Double Standards": 

"People of double standards never experience happiness."

Hi for all with my respect to all their contributions, but my picture has a tongue

Have a nice day

It is very hard and disgusting too when your affection, sympathy, and generosity to your relatives and friends could be sound as a form of weakness. And some of them could be more focusing by evil actions against you as part of a hidden jealousy or may be paid by others to make your life a heal!! Better to be alone in that case!! Happiness do not depends only on how a person could invest from her person from generosity and kindness in her social environment, when the morality  of the society is mainly organized on how to get quickly some personal benefits; thus its consequences on the family, friends, colleagues etc... Yet some people could be  more focusing on how to get some personal benefit from you or on behalf of you or against you when they are able to. The society should be ruled ethically or at least correctly so that things could be arranged out of vice and corruption and each thing/affair/matter/ or issue should belongs only to its status and entity (chaque chose a sa place, pas de melanges de genres, de contenus ni de contenants et les vaches seront bien gardees!!). Every one then could built his/her happiness as (s)he conceives it.

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

                                                                        -----   Buddha

Hello Shafagat and friends, today is Christmas, and here, I am happy to celebrate it this morning at church with my friends.  We celebrate it with pre-Christmas fasting and prayers.  On Christmas day, we have an open house celebration at church.  Each member will cook a few dishes.  After a great washing up, each one returns home feeling blessed and satisfied that we have the strength to do all these duties to honor God.  I wish all of you a blessed day.  

Dear good friends, dear Shafagat.

Merry Christmas !

I speak for myself. I am the happiest most joyful person that I know...

I know it does´t depend on Society. It comes from within. As soon as I wake up, I start my energetic joyful act, for as long as I can remember... Of course I do have my stressful, sad moments. I do.  But soon after, I manage to discover the joyful side of difficulties in life.(I've had to cope with some very difficult problems and fatalities, but I manage to keep my joy.)

It's a question of intrinsic personality. It comes from within, independently from facts or surroundings.

So, independently from the greatest of your problems and sorrows, I wish you all a very joyful and happy Christmas, to all.

Dear Maria Bettencourt Pires,

Thank you very much for attention.

Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for a Happy New Year!

Best regards, Shafagat

Dear @Maria Bettencourt Pires,

Thank you very much for attention.

Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for a Happy New Year!

Best regards, Shafagat

Being in harmony with society and having good relatinship with others can help but true happiness is an inner quality. Here is a nice quote which summarize my thoughts:

"Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy"

 ~ Dada Vaswani

Happiness and self/inner satisfaction are twins. There are degrees of happiness depending on persons' motivations or needs. Some are happy with a good food, others with a beautiful makeup, and others with results or achievements.

We (1984-1988 batch engineering students of our college) are still in touch at some frequency and make it up to meet face-to-face once while whenever possible.

Our recent meeting was on 25th Dec 2015. For easy reference, I am on the left corner of the table

Dear Friends,

My best respects and wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year to each of you, and your entire families.

Bob

Dear Shafagat thank you for the interesting question its true we cannot live with out society and we have to have an active role in our society

Good living means the value you are able to add to peoples life

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"Happiness of an individual outside the society is impossible, just as the life of a plant pulled out of the ground is impossible."

                                                     ----   Unknown

“If you want to be in optimum emotional health, realize that social isolation stands between you and it. Reach out to others. Join groups—to drum, meditate, sing, sew, read, whatever. Find communities—to garden, do service work, travel, whatever. We humans are social animals. Spontaneous happiness is incompatible with social isolation. Period.”

 ~ Andrew Weil, Spontaneous Happiness

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

But some times the society is greedy!! Please, see

"Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable."

                                                            ----   Simone de Beauvoir

Usually, society used to please a person. As, human being is social animal, he/she always depends on society for almost every thing. Fulfillment of the wishes make a person really happy.