The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

You know, my dear child, that one cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

There is great danger of not, in happiness, finding our delight in the Lord.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

joy is not found in the things which surround us, but lives only in the soul.

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Happiness can come solely from within, but not for long - The Bern Seer -

For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

The happy place
Imparts to thee no happiness, no joy — Rather inflames thy torment, representing
Lost bliss, to thee no more communicable;
So never more in Hell than when in Heaven.

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Those who run after happiness will never be happy. Happiness is something that has to come to the fore from within.