Quotes About Perception

People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.

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.

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

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 in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.

My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.

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

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.

Happiness is a rare cosmetic.

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

That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there.

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

All happiness is in the mind.

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.

I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it.

Suffering just means you're having a bad dream. Happiness means you're having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.

I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, more so than I do in the reality that surrounds me.

If you think happiness is a rare bird you won't see much of it.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities..

Each to their own reality

Das Glück ist nicht in den Dingen, die wir besitzen, sondern in den Dingen, die zu besitzen wir glauben.

Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on

That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.