Quotes About Perception

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

The difference between happiness is no-where and happiness is now-here has something to do with the event, and everything to do with how you see the event. Your perception is key.