We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing...
It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Sometimes we can't find the thing that will make us happy, because we can't let go of the thing that was supposed to.

Our idea of happiness may be the very thing that’s preventing us from being happy.

Each life unfulfilled, you see;
It hangs still, patchy and scrappy:
We have not sighed deep, laughed free,
Starved, feasted, despaired, — been happy.

To be happy we need someone to love, something to do, and something to look forward to. I

What does unhappiness matter when we are all unhappy together?

We constantly walk around thinking, “I need this,” or “I need that,” trapped in the web of desires. Happiness is the state when nothing is missing.

We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

We manage to avoid being happy while struggling to become happy, fulfilling one desire after the next, banishing our fears, grasping at pleasure, recoiling from pain — and thinking, interminably, about how best to keep the whole works up and running

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

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