Happiness Quote by Sigmund Freud

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

— Dalai Lama

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

— Willie Nelson

Suffering is caused by desire. Desire is wanting something you don't have, wishing something were some way it isn't, or being otherwise generally dissatisfied…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

— J. I. Packer

Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.

— Tara Brach

“Suffering is the nature of this world. It is the golden standard by which all things are measured. It is not happiness that sets…

— Addison Moore

suffering sweetens the reward

— F.E. Higgins

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the…

— Paulo Coelho

Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish.

— Maya Tiwari

We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

The craving for things we think are outside ourselves binds us to suffering.

— Senoraroy