Away Quote by Anonymous

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very…

— Julie Christie

We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.

— Ajahn Sumedho

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

— Nhat Hanh

Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three…

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Joseph January

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt,…

— Nathaniel Branden

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

— Willie Nelson

Happiness comes from the ones who experienced pain.

— Jackie C

“It is not that life is without its hurts and pains; it cannot be. But if a person brings his focus only to the…

— Osho

Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being.

— Nhat Hanh

We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.

— Bernard Malamud