Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

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.

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

What people are perceiving will dictate what their life and ultimately what your interaction is.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

People will feel the way they feel.

It's so hard not to smile.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

Things themselves don't hurt or hinder us. Things simply are what they are. How we view these things is another matter.People think what they will think; it is of no concern to us.

I like the saying: "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same - the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds - every screening is different. The difference is sometimes subtle but it's there. It depends on the audience. There is a circle that goes from the audience to the film and back. Each person is looking and thinking and feeling and coming up with his or her own sense of things. And it's probably different from what I fell in love with.

Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.

This world is not the same to all people. Each one lives in his little domain....Peace and harmony may reign in one person's world; where strife and restlessness in anothers. But whatever the circumstances of one's environment, it consists of both an inner and an outer world. The outside world is the one in which your life engages in action and interaction. The world inside of you determines your happiness or unhappiness.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

I think anything you listen to is going to be different.

Opinions can't be inaccurate.

I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.