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
What is the definition of happiness? The feeling that arises when you are acting
according to your nature, is called "Happiness".
-Deep Trivedi
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
-Gerard Way
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem; today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!
-C. Joy Bell C.
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
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
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
