Quotes About Perception

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.

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

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.

It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world

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

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that it's hard to tell them apart.

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.