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
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
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 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
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
