Happiness Perception Quotes

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

If you're happy all of the time, it's difficult to acknowledge when you actually are happy.

I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category.

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

What I've also noticed is the term happiness, or happy is intimidating to some people. Some people deny that it's even possible to be happy, or to achieve happiness. Happiness sounds like this magical destination that you arrive at and then everything is sort of solved, or it's different.

No man is happy but by comparison.

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.

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.

He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.

We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.

I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.

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

You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.

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.

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

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.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.