It is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

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.

It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

yeah, you can't buy happiness

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

No man can demonstrate peace and cling to unhappiness.

Don't spend you life making other people happy. Other people being happy is their problem.

No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.

And you cannot build a home for your worth inside of another being.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

One should not want to be anything but what one is, because it creates unhappiness.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

It’s impossible to create work that both matters and pleases everyone.