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To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering. — Sam Harris

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind. — Matthieu Ricard

When you see suffering and sadness, to heal them the least we can offer is our love and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life. — Albert Camus

Your suffering is my suffering and your happiness is my happiness. — Gautama Buddha

Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results. — Sakyong Mipham

Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you. — Jack Kornfield

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering
expresses the great natural potential of mind. — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Freedom from suffering is a great happiness. — Nhat Hanh

The prayer that is heard is not of many words ... but of Oneness — Vivian Amis

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

The suffering and happiness in our world, both individual and collective, depend on our consciousness. — Jack Kornfield

Yes, we can alleviate human sufferings.
Just let us be kind and caring when we see someone is suffering. — Debasish Mridha

How can there be suffering when there is love? — Debasish Mridha

She had helped him to endure the suffering as lovingly as she had helped him to discover happiness. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Don't judge a community by how much they are suffering but judge them by how much they are learning from it. That is what really matters. — Debasish Mridha

Confusion and suffering may be our birthright, but wisdom and happiness are available. — Sam Harris

Happiness is the cessation of suffering. — Nhat Hanh

And indeed, here I am posing an idle question of my own now: which is better - cheap happiness or sublime suffering? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering. — Dalai Lama XIV

We can't wait to be happy until we remove one hundred percent of suffering. That moment will never exist. — Thich Nhat Hanh

We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable. — Ajahn Sumedho

Suffering teaches joy. — Sonia Rumzi

Suffering from loss should have been bringing happiness because true blue of love is really shown up from behind of it. — Neo Wasiman

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

We have two lives ... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness. — Bernard Malamud

If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too — Eckhart Tolle

When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness. — Victor Hugo

Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down. — Woody Allen

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can. — William Faulkner

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain. — Thomas Hardy

When life gives you pain, accept it. When life gives you happiness, reject it. — Santosh Kalwar

The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens. — Helen Keller

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection. — Amit Ray

After or before any happiness, someone must cry. — Michael Bassey Johnson

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness. — John Lubbock

All psychological suffering (or happiness, taken in its usual sense) is a matter of comparison. — Robert A. Johnson

Try to change the world one suffering heart at a time with your endless kindness. — Debasish Mridha

If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create! — William C. Brown

External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind. — Dalai Lama

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story. — Isabel Allende

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind. — Ajahn Chah

We are the creators of our own happiness and suffering, for everything originates in the mind. — Dalai Lama

When gratitude begins, then life finds the abundance and suffering ends. — Debasish Mridha

Time is so long when there is suffering and so short when there is happiness. — Manny Steinberg

In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self. — Mahavira

Life is a suffering. We suffer because we exist. So enjoy the sufferings with love to make life worthwhile to suffer for. — Debasish Mridha

Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others — Matthieu Ricard

When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow. — Stephen Richards

Life has existential suffering; we become happy by caring. — Debasish Mridha

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering. — Norodom Sihamoni

Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness. — Judy Tatelbaum

The greatest purpose of life is to serve the suffering humanity with love and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

You were said to have died of suffering. But you died because you searched for happiness at the risk of finding the void. — Edouard Leve

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. — W. Somerset Maugham

If you don't believe others can end your suffering, why believe they can end your happiness? — Donald L. Hicks

Annual income is Â£ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of Â£ 20, the cost is Â£ 20.6, you will see suffering — Charles Dickens

The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

If you combine the suffering's great color palette you will find happiness as well. — Sorin Cerin

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. — Elizabeth Gilbert

There was a month of fiery happiness. Then six kinked years of suffering. — Annie Proulx

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God. — Meher Baba

I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering. — Nhat Hanh

All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others. — Shantideva

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness. — Vernon Howard

The flip side of happiness is suffering. — Radhanath Swami

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It's just a waste of perfectly good happiness. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

As long as the belief is: we need suffering to grow, the world will be suffering and the belief will be limiting. — Natasa Nuit Pantovic

Let us be kind and lighten the burden of those who are suffering. — Debasish Mridha

Be a human angel! With love, generosity and kindness, let us lighten the burden of suffering from humanity. — Debasish Mridha

I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better
cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fear of suffering destroys our dreams and hope. — Debasish Mridha

Suffering just means you're having a bad dream. Happiness means you're having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether. — Jed McKenna

Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me. — Francis Of Assisi

Don't let your outer pain, misery, and suffering touch your inner calmness and happiness. — Debasish Mridha

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness. — Frederick Lenz

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping. — Garchen Rinpoche

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering — Albert Camus

Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness — Orhan Pamuk

One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness. — Stephen Richards

To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us. — Allan Lokos

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction — Dalai Lama XIV

There's this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Knowing how to suffer well is essential to realizing true happiness. SUFFERING — Thich Nhat Hanh

Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness. — Sharon Salzberg

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering. — Gregory David Roberts

Be awesome! With kindness, serve the suffering humanity. — Debasish Mridha

Pain is painful but an essential ingredient of life. Suffering is optional. — Debasish Mridha

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy. — Tyler Perry

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness. — Peter L. Berger

We can recognize happiness only when we remember the times of suffering! — Thich Nhat Hanh

One would suffer a great deal to be happy. — Mary Wortley Montagu

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering? — Matthieu Ricard

Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering. — Gautama Buddha

Every being wants happiness and does not want suffering. If we do not respect this fact, there will be more and more suffering on this planet. — Dalai Lama XIV

I often wonder if I am entitled to be as happy as I am, given the amount of suffering in the world. — Dennis Prager

And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky