Radically Happy Quotes

“Mastering dignity is the heart of radical happiness. It begins with cultivating a quiet self-confidence in the power of the exercises, contemplations, and meditations you have learned—both the exercises you’ve learned in this book and any others you may learn that complement those methods.”
― Phakchok Rinpoche, Radically Happy: A User's Guide to the Mind

“I’ve been through lots of terrible things in my life. Some of them happened. —Mark Twain”
― Phakchok Rinpoche, Radically Happy: A User's Guide to the Mind

“You may be wondering, if we are so bad at predicting what will make us happy, why don’t we notice and learn from our mistakes? Well, scientists have been wondering the same thing, and it looks like not only are we bad at making happiness predictions, we also seem to be very bad at remembering what we thought would make us happy or unhappy after the fact. In other words, we forget or minimize our bad predictions.”
― Phakchok Rinpoche, Radically Happy: A User's Guide to the Mind

“Go figure. But the truth is, we really suck when it comes to predicting what will make us happy.”
― Phakchok Rinpoche, Radically Happy: A User's Guide to the Mind