I often wonder why people feel so misereable in their life??is it a lack of contentment?is it anger?anxiety?low self esteem?I might go deeper into this subject==feel free to comment your own opinions

Free from worry. I find when I'm less anxious my general mental state improves and my depression sinks into the background. I can experience happiness then.

Most recently I seem to feel the worst when I set goals for myself and don't follow up daily and actually make some progress towards accomplishing them.

I recently started believing that maybe happiness isn't a goal but rather a means. 'The journey is the destination' and all that jazz. I choose to be happy so I can devote energy to bringing happiness to other people in my own way.

Doesn't always work, but making a point to at least try to be happy every day is generally helping me form a habit of it.

Happiness is a sense of well-being, joy, or contentment. When people are successful, or safe, or lucky, they feel happiness.

I am happiest when I am able to forget myself - there is no pain, nagging thoughts, or acute problems that I have to reflect on or that force themselves into my mind.

Being in motion can help - exercising or just riding a bike or walking outside. Being absorbed in something interesting to look at. (A wood pigeon is sitting on her eggs just outside my kids' bedroom window.)

Making music - being in the flow as Kenny Werner and others have described it. It's not me playing, it's the music manifesting itself through my body. I am not really there, or at least, I am not doing anything. Those are moments of happiness.

I personally have no experience that indicates that happiness is a state that can be achieved - like a wallpaper that is always there and affects the whole character of the room you live in, so to speak.

I think the best we can aim for is to experience moments of happiness - just a couple a day to remind ourselves that it is possible. Maybe this can be practiced and thus gotten better at?