Happiness Quote by Sharon Salzberg

“The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Joy always follows on the heels of pain. If a person escapes a mindset that current events represent an ongoing tragedy, they will encounter…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“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

“If you don't feel the pain with others, you wont know the meaning of sharing happiness...”

— Hussein S. Hariri

“Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness”

— Neal Shusterman

“Other people's happiness is always a fascinating bore. It sucks the oxygen out of the room; you're left gasping, greedy, amazed by a deficit…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“When you experience the joy of bringing joy into someone else's life, then you know what joy is.”

— Nathaniel Phillips

“We create most of our suffering, so it should be logical that we also have the ability to create more joy. It simply depends…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Joy is as thorny and sharp as any of the dark emotions. To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart,…

— Brené Brown

“Too often when we say we feel joyful, we’re really feeling manic. There is a frenetic nature to our joy, a whiff of panic;…

— Eric Weiner

“Mind you, I don’t know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences…

— Edward St. Aubyn