Quotes About Perspective

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.

Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

How little has situation to do with happiness.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.

We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

You don't need others to change in order to be happy.

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

I've always had lots of friends who share my perspective - I guess you could say that I'm a guy who aggressively pursues his happiness.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else--that is, that it is not with you.

The flip side of happiness is suffering.

Happiness is a way of travelling and not a final destination.

You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

After initial needs are met—enough food, shelter, comfort—there is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.

The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.