The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

As long as we desire, we can do without happiness: we expect to achieve it. If happiness fails to come, hope persists, and the charm of illusion lasts as long as the passion that causes it. So this condition is sufficient in itself, and the anxiety it inflicts is a sort of enjoyment that compensates for reality… Woe to him who has nothing left to desire… We enjoy less what we obtain than what we hope for, and we are happy only before being happy.

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

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

Happiness is simply the absence of desire. When you observe a cue, but do not desire to change your state, you are content with the current situation. Happiness is not about the achievement of pleasure (which is joy or satisfaction), but about the lack of desire. It arrives when you have no urge to feel differently.

Happiness Equals Reality Minus Expectations

yeah, you can't buy happiness

Happiness is the abscence of the striving for happiness.

I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.

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.

I’m not weeping, I’m not complaining,
Happiness is not for me.

Happiness, as it’s said, is just results minus expectations.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.