A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult
"Nineteen Minutes"
Quotations
Happiness
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Dear John"
Strength is happiness. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness.
-Daisaku Ikeda "Daisaku Ikeda"
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
