Diversion Quote by Alice Hegan Rice

By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst,…

— Sharon Salzberg

While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only…

— Dalai Lama

Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.

— Erich Fromm

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are…

— Samuel Richardson

“Seek contentment rather than happiness. Contentment holds water. Happiness leaks. (Kit Clark in REDEMPTION)”

— Laurel Dewey

“Drink for thirst, but taste with purpose.”

— Bianca Bosker

Beware of Destination Addiction... a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job and with the next partner.…

— Robert Holden

The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility,…

— Marcel Proust

“If I identify happiness with fleeting pleasant sensations, and crave to experience more and more of them, I have no choice but to pursue…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.

— Zicheng Hong