Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
Quotations
Happiness
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"
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in any group or community, and the eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service. Nowadays, we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve, but there is great worth in service.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
