Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
Quotations
Happiness
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
-Zaroaster "Zaroaster"
With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in any group or community, and the eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service. Nowadays, we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve, but there is great worth in service.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
