Quotes About Perspective

Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.

Lowering your standards is the key to happiness.

those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.

Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at.

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.

Happiness is not so much a feeling as it is an attitude

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.

Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant?

Don't think about happiness. If it doesn't come, there's no disappointment; if it does come, it's a surprise.

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.