Quotes About Perception

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.

It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.

I'm trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?

Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

What you're believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at.

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

You can never learn anything that you did not already know