Quote by Noah Elkrief

“Happiness is what remains when there are no thoughts to create our suffering.”

— Noah Elkrief

“Suffering is intrinsic to human existence. There is no joy without its attendant pain.”

— Peter Ackroyd

“Happiness and suffering are states of mind and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind.”

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

“We can recognize happiness only when we remember the times of suffering!”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“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

“i thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables, i thought about my…

— jonathan safran foer

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

— Ajahn Sumedho

“Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not last; even…

— Albert Camus

“If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.”

— Kelsang Gyatso

“The more adversity we suffer in life, the more we savor the brief, rare periods of complete happiness and abandon. Those moments when everything-taste,…

— Juliana Buhring

“I realize that is a bold claim, but emotional suffering is just the negative emotion caused by a meaning we attach to things with…

— eBookIt.com

“I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.”

— Isabel Allende