Besides, you are seeking something you have already found, but don't know it. Such are the causes of unhappiness.

Those who search for happiness do not find it because they do not understand that the object of the search is the seeker.

It would seem that our intelligence is the source of our unhappiness in an almost literal way; but it would also imply that our unhappiness is the source of our strength as a species.

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Besides, you are seeking something you have already found but don't knoit. Such are the causes of unhappiness.

Others in the pursuits after happiness or pleasure must commonly seek those sources of it which they cannot enjoy without some inconvenience to the rest of their fellow creatures; hence they have their imaginary happiness so much soured by Envy, Jealousy, or self-disapprobation that they find themselves dissappointed.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. There is the situation or the fact, and here are my thoughts about it. Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Unhappiness comes from wanting what others have. Happiness comes from wanting what you already have.

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

Happiness is not easy to find. It's very difficult to find it in yourself — and impossible to find anywhere else.

The search for happiness is natural, because it is the constitutional position of the spirit soul to be eternally joyful. But our search for happiness in the external, physical world is always frustrated; we look everywhere, never realizing permanent pleasure. Temporary, relative pleasure is certainly here to be had, but it is always accompanied by its counterpart: pain. Those who are wise, then, look within, learning how to pursue not only the relative pleasure of this world but, more to the point, they focus on the higher pleasure of the spiritual realm.

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

It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.

Our egos are always trying to find happiness where [it] can't be found. One can't find true, lasting happiness outside of themselves. Whatever happiness you find outside of yourself, can be taken away. And in time, it will be taken away, because the nature of everything that exists, everything you can observe, everything that is around you, is that it is impermanent.