What do you believe truly makes people happy? What brings happiness to your life

Question:

What do you believe truly makes people happy? What brings happiness to your life?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The textbook answer comes from Maslow's hierarchy of human needs. People have basic needs; food, clothing and shelter. Then you need to feel safe. Then you need love or friends etc. Then self esteem, that you respect yourself and others and others respect you. Finally, self actualization, or the ability to be creative, to solve problems, to build trust and awareness. Honesty and freedom are key in this phase as well. People who spend some part of their life at the level of self actualization seem to be the happiest people.