Happiness is never your own; it is where the ‘I’ is not. It is beyond your reach; you have only to reach out beyond yourself and you will find it.

Happiness is not a thing that can be possessed.

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.

It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others.

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

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.

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

You can neither give happiness, nor receive it.

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

I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a "one size fits all" standard for happiness

If you can’t be happy by yourself, you have nothing.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.