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
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.
-Peter Deunov
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
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
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
