Happiness Quote by Rick Hanson

“happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.”

— Robert Wright

Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

— Anonymous

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Choosing happiness, in large part, means consciously refusing to choose unhappiness.”

— Art Berg

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

— Thomas Jefferson

“All the happiness in the world stems from wanting others to be happy, and all the suffering in the world stems from wanting the…

— Timber Hawkeye

“We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more aware of what causes happiness…

— Pema Chödrön

“People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble.…

— Rachel Kadish

One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out…

— Sigmund Freud

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

— Jacqueline Carey