If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
Quotations
Happiness
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
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"
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
Happiness is a late discovery.
-Fadi Dabour
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
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
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
