Quotes About Perspective

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.

There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.

Happiness never becomes a habit.

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

If you don't develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won't be any happier when you get more.

Happiness is not something you find, but rather something you create.

Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.

Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.

You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.

happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.

Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.

What you're believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.