Quotes About Perspective

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.

Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a mood, it is not permanent. It comes and goes and if people thought that way then maybe people would find happiness more often.

The key to happiness is the decision to be happy

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

No being can make another one happy.

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

Being happy is not the only happiness.

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great Misconception.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.