Quotes About Perspective

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

In order for the light of gratitude and happiness to shine so brightly, the darkness of how it could be worse must be present.

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.

Happiness is not found, it is created. Happiness does not depend on all that we lack, but on the way in which we use all that we have

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.