Effort Quote by Oliver Burkeman Download Open image “The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable,” — Oliver Burkeman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Effort Feels Happiness Miserable Trying
The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
What's the point in ever trying to be happy when the very pursuit of happiness is what makes you miserable.* — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can't be miserable all the time. I think just as human beings, we have to find joy or else all is lost. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
You know why it's so hard to be happy? Because we find it so hard to let go of the things that make us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know why it's hard to be happy? It's because we refuse to let go of the things that make us sad. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy. — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“And here lies the essential between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“By the second day, the song lyrics had faded, but in their place came darker irritations. Gradually, I started to become aware of a… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn out, of… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“All these counterproductive ways of thinking about failure manifest themselves most acutely in the phenomenon of perfectionism. This is one of those traits that… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“The greatest benefit of negative capability—the true power of negative thinking—is that it lets the mystery back in.” — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about How To… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you don’t need telling that self-help books, the modern-day apotheosis of the quest for happiness, are among the things that fail to make… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn't… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“Incremental theory’ people are different. Because they think of abilities as emerging through tackling challenges, the experience of failure has a completely different meaning… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really do get… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything… — Bankei Yotaku Copy Share Image
Reading counts as partying, even if you're not enjoying it! Even if someone's forcing you to read, you can find a way to make… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
Bernie [Ecclestone] is the commercial rights holder so the more outgoing the champion is, the better. Of course. I also do think about our… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Im tired, tired of putting more effort than you do. Im tired of always having to start the conversation and if I dont, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I love a pocket. I'm about helping women look as good as possible on the least amount of effort. I want versatility and comfort.… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity, at that – is… — Verghese Kurien Copy Share Image
Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than… — Peter Hilton Copy Share Image
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