subjective happiness Quotes

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you’re doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It’s what you think of it. Two people may in the same place doing the same thing, and yet one may be miserable and the other happy. Why? Because of a different mental attitude.

I have a very fun life. I don't recommend it for anybody else, but it sure has been fun for me.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.

Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

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

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

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

Whatever makes you happy, you put in your world.

Happiness is not like we were walking around fingering razor blades or anything like that. But it just sort of seems as if - we sort of knew how happy our parents were, and we would compare our lives with our parents and see that, at least on the surface or according to the criteria that the culture lays down for a successful, happy life, we were actually doing better than a lot of them were.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

I truly believe happiness has a different meaning for everyone. But I also believe that the sense of self is the key to one's happiness.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming.

One of the things that surprised me the most is how often we assume that because something's fun for someone else, it makes somebody else happy, it will make us happy.

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.