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
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
-Dale Carnegie
"How to Win Friends and Influence People"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
Happy are those who mourn; God will comfort them.
-Jesus Christ
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
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
