What is happiness?

So friends what is happiness according to you? According to me, the absence of sadness is happiness.
All through the life we just run behind the happiness and life goes, but the real happiness should not lie in achieving our goal but it should be in our efforts. So all we have to do is to try to be unhappy and we will automatically be happy. Happiness is not in money, power, and love or anything but in satisfaction. If we are satisfied then we are happy. Being content with whatever we get in life. Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. You cannot be happy alone. You can only be happy in a happy world, in a happy climate. If everybody is crying and weeping and is in misery, it is very, very difficult for you to be happy. So, one who cares about happiness, about his own happiness becomes careful about everybody else’s happiness, because happiness happens only in a happy climate.
Alexander was passing. He heard that Diogenes was just nearby so he went to see him. Even Alexander was impressed by the man, even Alexander felt puny before him. Diogenes was a naked fakir, he had nothing, but his being was such – so magnetic, so powerful – that Alexander was impressed, very impressed. In fact it is said that he was never impressed again by any other man. He asked the secret of it:”How have you become so powerful, not having anything? And I am a world conqueror; I have almost won the whole world. Just a little more is left; soon I will finish. And you – a naked man, having nothing – what is the secret of your happiness?”
Diogenes is reported to have said,”I renounced hope. That is the secret. And I tell you, you also renounce hope; otherwise you will always suffer.”
Alexander said,”I will come to you to learn the secret, but not now. I am on the way – half the world, more than half the world I have won, but there is a remaining part. I have to become a world conqueror, and then I will come.”
Diogenes said, “Nobody has ever been a world conqueror. Something or other always remains to be done. The dream is never complete and the desire is never fulfilled. If you really understand me, and if you really see that I am happy without bothering about winning the whole world, then you can also be happy without it.”