Quote by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

“even though we do not want to suffer we create our own suffering by performing non-virtuous actions.”

— Kelsang Gyatso

“The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuous in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary.”

— Nicholas Sparks

“If you are full and complete in yourself, if you lack nothing, if your desires come and go easily, you will always be free.…

— Deepak Chopra

“Without passion and satisfaction, there is nothing to make happiness last.”

— ANIKOR Daniel

“[through nonresistance, nonjudgment, and non-attatchment] you can participate in the dance of creation and be active without attachment to outcome and without placing unreasonable…

— Eckhart Tolle

“It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet i have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make…

— Franz Kafka

“It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I lead a bitter life, devoid of all external joy and in which I have nothing to keep me going but a sort of…

— Gustave Flaubert

“For once you yourself cease to take pleasure in the common enjoyments of life, you hate the normal man who is so much more…

— J.P.V.D. Balsdon

“I had a deep and abiding love for the idea that this life is not something that we are forced to endure but rather…

— Paul Harding

“Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary, repel and even terrify me. I have too much imagination, conscience, and penetration and not enough character.…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel