Quotes About Perspective

Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.

The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

The thing about happiness, though, is that it never lasts.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

I'd rather be happy than right.

A person can either do something in order to be happy, or... a person can start the day by simply deciding to BE happy and the things that person will do will automatically reflect that.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane-- not just extraordinary things

one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.

No one has a right to happiness.

If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

It isn't happiness I am concerned with but experience.

Happiness is the only thing I understand.

Happiness is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of happiness.

You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.