Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise.
-Debra Anastasia
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"
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
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
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw