You are concerned with your own happiness and I am telling you that there is no such thing. Happiness is never your own, it is where the ‘I’ is not.

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.

Happiness is not found in self contemplation; it is perceived only when it is reflected from another.

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

happiness may come if not sought, but if looked for will never be seen;

Happiness is not a thing that can be possessed.

If you take your happiness and put it in someone’s hands, sooner or later, she is going to break it. If you give your happiness to someone else, she can always take it away. Then if happiness can only come from inside of you and is the result of your love, you are responsible for your happiness.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

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

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Happiness isn’t having something for yourself but wanting it for everyone.