Quotes About Perspective

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.

Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

Happiness doesn't come from external circumstances. It comes from the inside-regardless of what is happening around us.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

You can't buy happiness

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.

A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world.

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.'

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

We are all happy if we but knew it.

You don't find happiness, you make happiness.

The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

If you do not decide to be happy, very few people can make you happy. If you decide to be happy, very few people can make you unhappy.