As a psychiatrist, I’ve seen how chasing happiness leads to misery | Psyche Ideas
Enjoyment takes work and forgoing pleasures; satisfaction requires sacrifice and doesn’t last; purpose almost always entails suffering. Getting happier, in other words, requires that we accept unhappiness in our lives as well, and understanding it isn’t an obstacle to our happiness.
Oprah Winfrey • Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
The great irony is that those who dedicate their lives to hunting the chimera are the least likely to find it. As the psychiatrist Viktor Frankl warned, you can’t pursue happiness head-on. It will find you, but only as an unintentional byproduct of some worthier goal. Instead of chasing a mirage, eyes forever fixed on the destination, all we can do
... See moreRichard Meadows • Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
Happiness is a combination of enjoyment, satisfaction, and purpose. To get happier is to get more of these elements, in a balanced way—not all of one and none of another. But if you were reading closely, you noticed one funny thing about all three: they all have some unhappiness within them. Enjoyment takes work and forgoing pleasures; satisfaction
... See moreOprah Winfrey • Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
