Approach Quote by Ajahn Sumedho

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have…

— Anonymous

“Knowing how to handle suffering, you know at the same time how to produce happiness. And if you’re truly happy, we all profit from…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.

— Chris Prentiss

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.

— Sakyong Mipham

Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on…

— Albert Ellis

Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being.

— Nhat Hanh

Eventually we learn to define happiness for ourselves, on our own terms, in spite of the pain other people have caused us.

— Joseph January

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

— Carl Jung

We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and…

— Anonymous

“We create most of our suffering, so it should be logical that we also have the ability to create more joy. It simply depends…

— Dalai Lama XIV

All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance - these open…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

— Nhat Hanh