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
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
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
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or body’s satisfaction.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
Human intelligence lies in making such choices that whatever he desires or
attains out of them...the end result should only be happiness.
-Deep Trivedi
