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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

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.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.