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
Quotations
Happiness
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
