The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Dear John"
Quotations
Happiness
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
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
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
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"
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
