Quotes About Reality

If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

The flip side of happiness is suffering.

American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos.

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.

The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous.

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

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.

I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, more so than I do in the reality that surrounds me.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities..

The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.

Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on