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

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

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

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

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 the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

In the first place, no man is happy but strives his whole life long after a supposed happiness which he seldom attains, and even if he does it is only to be disappointed with it.

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us — there is no life.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

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

As the existential philosopher Albert Camus said (and I’m pretty sure he wasn’t on LSD at the time): ‘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 is not found in self contemplation; it is perceived only when it is reflected from another.