#happiness

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#happiness #inspirational #quotient #reality #inspirational

If you don't appreciate her, you don't deserve her. ↗

— Robert Tew

#life #life-lessons #life-quote #relationships #woman

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. ↗

— Matthieu Ricard

#life #problems #sadness #life

Your purpose is your why. ↗

— Deborah Day

#purpose #purpose-in-life #values #life

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#happiness #hope #sentimentality #wishes #wishing

See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

#find #good #happiness #run #see

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#happiness #ignorance #life #life

But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#joy #life #sadness #time #life

If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#life #life-lessons-lessons #rasheed-ogunlaru #secrets-of-the-universe #secrets-to-happiness

#1487: Hug a cow. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#happiness #hugs #life