Compare Quote by Roger L'Estrange

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

— Roger L'Estrange

Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

— Ambrose Bierce

In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.

— Zicheng Hong

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

— William Cobbett

There is neither happiness nor misery in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has…

— Alexandre Dumas - (Count Of Monte Cristo

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

— Thomas Jefferson

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is merely the comparison of one state to the other. Only a man who…

— Jreys

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more…

— Maimonides

Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that…

— Matthieu Ricard

“As I write this it sounds rather negative and hard but I do not mean it to be so. Happiness grounded in reality is…

— Sheila Cassidy