"Happiness is a direction and not a place./..., not a place."

[Odessa Dawn]

Happiness is a direction and not a place.
Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Sydney J. Harris

Is the second (better written/written better?) than the first regarding the punctuation?

 

[Rover_KE]

They are both correctly punctuated.
They are both punctuated correctly.

 

[MikeNewYork]

As a sentence, I prefer the second.