It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

I had prioritized one thing at the expense of everything.

I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away.

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

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

giving up what you want most for what you want now can deprive you of life’s real treasures.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

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

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Our idea of happiness may be the very thing that’s preventing us from being happy.

The desire to feel happy or think positively all the time hinders many people's authentic existence. It lowers resilience.

Expectations are what destroy happiness — whether it’s in our relationships, with our kids, or with our work. Expectations are why so many people are so unhappy today, even in a world with so much abundance.