You are Looking in the Wrong Place for Happiness

We are the source of our own happiness.

Our happiness resides within us. No one and nothing else can give it to us. We may try to find all kinds of things outside ourselves to fill us up and make us happy, but they are all temporary, short-lived band-aids.
We think success, reputation, respect, money and status will do it for us. But they won’t. They’re nice, but they’re not the answer. We still have the feeling that something is missing. This does not mean that a happy person cannot have all the trappings of success. You can.
Happiness, however, is not a result of these achievements and outward possessions and symbols of success. Happiness only dwells within and when we seek it somewhere outside of ourselves, it only becomes more elusive.