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
Quotations
Happiness
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
To be joyous in life, a few bites to eat in peace, pouring rains or cool breeze are
sufficient... Whereas for reasons to be sad, you can write thousands of books on
it.
-Deep Trivedi
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
There is no end to craving. Hence, contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Stay content.
-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
