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
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
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"
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
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
What is the definition of happiness? The feeling that arises when you are acting
according to your nature, is called "Happiness".
-Deep Trivedi
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
