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
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.
-Peter Deunov
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise.
-Debra Anastasia
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
