Quotes About Perspective

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.

The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.

Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.