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
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
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"
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
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
Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.
-Anonymous "Rajuda"
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
