Biology Quote by Russ Harris

“Thus, evolution has shaped our brains so that we are hardwired to suffer psychologically: to compare, evaluate, and criticize ourselves, to focus on what…

— S.J. Scott

“In our modern world of today, the search for personal satisfaction and fulfilment has become practically universal. It is extraordinary to consider that our…

— Richard Rudd

It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Evolution doesn't give a damn about your happiness, but will use the promise of happiness (using dopamine rushes) to keep you hunting, gathering, working,…

— Kelly McGonigal

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

— Haruki Murakami

“By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Happiness is the exception-joy a rarity-the normal feeling most human beings have is discontent or longing... maybe there's an evolutionary purpose.”

— Dirk Wittenborn

“...it pointed to an alternative approach, a ‘negative path’ to happiness, that entailed taking a radically different stance towards those things that most of…

— Oliver Burkeman

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

— Annie Besant

“Evolutionary biologists tell us we have a “negativity bias” that makes our brains remember negative events more strongly than positive ones. So when we’re…

— Sharon Salzberg

“The choice was made to be less emotional, more rational, and less "human." What an odd step in our so-called evolution.”

— Michael Eli Vineberg

“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery? We are not formed for enjoyment; and,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley