Quotes About Perspective

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

A person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy.

Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness

Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.

And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.

'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.

Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions.

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

There is no one way to Happiness. Happiness is the way! It's inside your head FIRST and everyplace else second

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

Gratitude is a choice. Happiness is an attitude.