While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.
If you're happy all of the time, it's difficult to acknowledge when you actually are happy.
Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.
Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?
But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
When we are older we are very smart, but when we are younger we don't think we are happy, we have all of life ahead of us.
It is difficult to experience moments of happiness if we are not aware of what it is we genuinely love.
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
I urge you to please notice when you are happy.
