Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
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"
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
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"
Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but its here if you choose to come back to it.
-Ilona Andrews
"Magic Bleeds"
