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
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
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
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
-Marilyn Manson
"My Story"
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
-Kalidas "Kalidas"
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
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
