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
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
-Mary Baker Eddy
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
