As a psychiatrist, I’ve seen how chasing happiness leads to misery | Psyche Ideas
Happiness can never be obtained by being pursued. Like the coming of the Messiah in Jewish tradition, it is one of those things that only comes when you are not thinking about it. It comes from a life well lived, in pursuit of the good for its own sake.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
The effort to try and feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. -Oliver Burkeman
happiness is overrated. It’s not like it’s a steady state. If you’re thirsty, happiness is a glass of cold water, for example. But too much of it, you drown. So it’s very contextual and it’s short-lived and happiness is the by-product of being in the right relationship with your own soul at that moment.