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
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones.
-Dhammapada " Dhammapada 194"
What is the definition of happiness? The feeling that arises when you are acting
according to your nature, is called "Happiness".
-Deep Trivedi
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
To be joyous in life, a few bites to eat in peace, pouring rains or cool breeze are
sufficient... Whereas for reasons to be sad, you can write thousands of books on
it.
-Deep Trivedi
