No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
Quotations
Happiness
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"
Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
-Amit Ray
"Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style"
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
-Zaroaster "Zaroaster"
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett
