Quotes about Perspective
Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.
— Beverly Lewis
Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.
— Dorothy Day
Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness.
— Dennis Prager
Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.
— Adrian Rogers
We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
— Timothy Keller
Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.
— Ellen Glasgow
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.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
— Martha Washington
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.
— Marcel Pagnol
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.
— Martha Washington
Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don't chase it when it's gone.
— Marty Rubin