They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
--Confucius (in The Seed Wheel Turns)

Our happiness comes not as a goal, but as a byproduct of engaging in honesty with ourselves. --Susan David (in Breaking Free From the Tyranny of Positivity)

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken. --Leo Tolstoy (in Activating Moral Discomfort & Spiritual Community for the Earth)

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. --W.P. Kinsella (in Daily Phrases from the World's Happiest Nation)

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. --James Oppenheim (in If You Haven’t Found Your Purpose, How to Feel Good Anyway)

… if we wait for the perfect time, the perfect person, the perfected self, we’ll stay frozen in an idea of love. But if we fearlessly engage with the life spread out before us, we will be rewarded with a heart that can hold it all — happiness and messiness, clarity and confusion, love and loss. --Pema Chodron (in Iris Murdoch: How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely)

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. --Nathaniel Hawthorne (in How to Stop Overthinking Your Happiness)

Happiness is not given to us, nor is misery imposed. At every moment we are at a crossroads and must choose the direction we will take. --Matthieu Ricard (in Conversation with the 'World's Happiest Man')