“Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.”
Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. I, p. 23
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Fernbank, London, England October, 1971
1970s
Variant: If you want external happiness, it can be an elusive desire. Internal happiness needs only to be revealed. It is not elusive because it is within you. It is your treasure. If you take someone else's treasure, it is stealing, but if you turn to your own, it is not. Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

Source: Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction

“Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world?”
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Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book IV: Taran Wanderer (1967), Chapter 1