Quotes About Perspective

The secret is this. You make your own happiness.

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

I always see what's... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what's wrong. I never see what's right. It's not a recipe for happiness.

Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?

Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

Happiness is the result of an attitude of mind. I believe you can build it out of small things.

Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

I believe that happiness is something we create

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

Happiness comes not from having more, not from having less, but from wanting what you have.

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

If you want to be happy, you will be.

Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.

Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness.

We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.