Compounds Quote by Jay McInerney

“This Buddhist view of happiness has a lot in common with the biochemical view. Both agree that pleasant sensations disappear as fast as they…

— Yuval Noah Harari

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases…

— Alex Campbell

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

— Jane Austen

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness…

— Hugh Black

“not allowing yourself to enjoy it when things are good only robs you of happiness. Joy is something you need to feel, and it’s…

— Loretta Lost

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness…

— Hugo Black

“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

“So if you understand that where there is a search for pleasure there must be pain, live that way if you want to, but…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Misery develops in the insidious seams created by imprecision and faulty human thinking. The cure for unhappiness is finding joy by embracing human nature.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit.

— Chris Burkard

When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the…

— Mark Epstein

“Choosing not to enjoy the moments meant for joy doesn't spare you from the suffering that may follow. The time you let slip away…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos