How can I be happy without friends and family?

You need to be happy with yourself anyway before you can be in any relationship, or else the other person will be pulling your weight. You need to find a hobby, a place to go, a thing to do so you have something to keep you busy when you get bored. You can try to write lists of things you can do without people around you.

You always have friends. And if you really really honestly truely don't, I'll be our friend and I'll make You happy xxxx

Your hobbies are your friend, this thing called Internet that you're on is your friend, this text you are reading is your friend, this website aims to be your friend, the people on here try to be your friend, if you believe in God then God is both your friend and family, if you have pets they are also both your friends and family, if you don't have any family right now then you find & make one one day, if you spoke with someone and you both came off smiling after that then they are your friend I could go on and on and on. But what makes you think that you don't already have a friend ? I am your friend :) You are also my friend Did I make you smile yet ?

Keeping yourself happy with the things you love so much. But I believe no one can be happy without a friend or family

If you ask this questions, then I think the answer for long total personal social isolation (I mean no personal relationships) - then I suppose the answer is a clear no. You asking this questions tells me, that you have personally experienced that you are not happy without friends and family. You understand and feel the concept of what lonelyness is. Only if you would have never felt unhappy when you were lonely, if you were someone who did not feel that emotion in such a situation, then you would be someone who did not feel and could also not understand the concept of loneliness. And as you can't miss something you do not experience you would be able to be happy. Yes, you could be unhappy about not being able to understand what if feel that concept yourself - but that's not relevant here. You asking this questions, makes me think that you are either in such a situation right now or fear of getting into such a situation. And for some reason you think that it might be easier to accept it and now you hope for someone telling you: yes, you can stay in isolation, accept the situation and this are the possible ways to forget about the problem. Whatever difficulties you have, which force you to consider being without friends: this is terrible and if I could I would hug and hold you now. Please, please, please don't give up hope - there are always good people out there, who you can connect with and some who will open there arms and say "I consider you a very important person in my life - you are a friend to me". I suppose, if you feel unhappy because of loneliness, you could learn to accept that unhappiness. And concentrate on something else. Maybe, in some difficult situations you might not have another option than to break all bridges to friends and / or family. Then for a limited time - yes, you might be able to push the unhappiness out of your view and somehow live with it and still enjoy day to day live. But I feel especially in the long run it would always be some kind of denial of both basic human needs and personal emotions. It would be some effort to supress that unhappiness and ignore it. In the long run denial and supression of your personal emotions will cost you your health (my personal view). Especially when we talk about this very, very strong need of human beings to "connect" to someone, to have someone who echoes our inner world. We are social beings - apes live in groups and have intensive social contact, our ancestors lived in tribes. The social construct of the "family" and of "friends" exists in any modern culture on earth. Ignoring this basic need and trying to suppress it might work, but will require enormous energy and will probably leave you with psychological issues and in some cases also some physiological problems. In some special circumstances, others rules might apply: I think of monks, ascets, etc. There are cases where people actively seek isolation to achieve special goals or to fulfil some rules they have accepted. In such circumstances I absolutely have no idea. So in the end please try to talk about this with someone - here or offline. The benefits of having or finding friends (and maybe also (re-)connecting to some family members) outweigh the cost of any obstacles you have to overcome on the way to find friends (again). Take care!

I believe that happiness is found within oneself, you do not need outter material things or love relationships or friendships to be happy, i believe that once you accept yourself for who you are and find the things you like to do, such as hobbies or other things, then you can be happy, truly happy.

You can enjoy other things in life than your friends and family. For example, you can have a pet, your job can be rewarding or even hobbies. Just find something you really enjoy doing it on your own ;) It's a good thing to learn how to live with ourselves because the person we are the closest every day is us. :)

You can be happy without friends and family by realizing yourself and knowing your own inner deep self, having purpose in life and striving for that thing which makes your existence meaningful... Acting in conformity with our true self is already the task of a lifetime. But to do so when surrounded by corrupting influences turns this task into one of Herculean proportions. If we feel that the social world we occupy is thwarting us in this regard what can we do about it? The ideal solution is to find a new social world to transition into, one that is composed of people who uplift us and who possess the traits that we wish to cultivate. Spending more time around people who are walking their own path of self-realization can be a great way to encourage us to do the same. But sometimes this ideal solution is not possible. For with so many people in a state of disharmony in the modern day, finding a healthy social world to embed ourselves in can prove quite difficult. “The capacity to be alone is a valuable resource when changes of mental attitude are required. After major alterations in circumstances, fundamental reappraisal of the significance and meaning of existence may be needed. In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.” Solitude promotes self-change as it frees us from the needs and expectations of other people and so allows for the inward reflection that is necessary to better learn who we are. But solitude is also the ideal state for the use of our imaginative faculties and it is our imagination that introduces us to the possible and that shows us what we could become. One way we may decide to re-organize the patterns of our life is to take a more permanent step away from the social relations that defined our past, and to focus our energy on cultivating a vocation and a purpose to our life. If we choose to take this path and to use a retreat into solitude to re-orient our life around the hub of a vocation, this process can also be the means to a more fulfilling social life. For in finding an intrinsically rewarding form of work and then spending the necessary time to become good at what we do, we will become more sure of ourselves and less in need of the validation of others. We will, in other words, become a higher functioning man or woman and in the social world, at least in terms of mental health, it is like that attracts like. The more we move in the direction of self-realization, the more we will gravitate towards others who are doing the same. Furthermore, as we become more self-reliant and less demanding of other people, as occurs with those who find meaning through their work, our existing relationships may also improve as a direct result. You are the only master to yourself, you are the only student to yourself. By leaning life, you learn yourself and by learning yourself you live a better life.

We, as humans, do not know how powerful we are. We have the ability to control our body, thoughts and psychology as we have the whole responsibility of our lives. That's why we must be our own best friends. Everything is in our hand. To succeed, or not to succeed... That's the issue! You can always be happy without friends or family, but with yourself...