We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.
Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.