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
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
-Zaroaster "Zaroaster"
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
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"
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.
-Kalidas "Kalidas"
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
