They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett
Quotations
Happiness
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
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
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
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"
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
