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

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. — AGNES REPPLIER, The Treasure Chest

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

When you cannot find your peace in yourself it is useless to look for it elsewhere

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

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

Happiness can come solely from within, but not for long - The Bern Seer -

Quand on ne trouve pas son repos en soi-même, il est inutile de le chercher ailleurs.

joy is not found in the things which surround us, but lives only in the soul.

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

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.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

You know, my dear child, that one cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.