Quotes About Perspective

American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos.

Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

I know a lot of ways to happiness! I also know some pretty fast shortcuts to misery.

Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.

How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that.

As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them.

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.

You may just miss an awesome ride if you only look at happiness as a destination.

The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.

I think that the early feminism at least overlooked the fact that partnership and children can provide happiness. It isn't the only way but for very many people it is the most important way.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Life is the sum or product of a bunch of individual moments if you can't enjoy moments then how do you expect to enjoy life?

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.But there's a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise.

The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.