Happiness Quotient Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.

Stefanie Powers

#3. The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

Agnes Repplier

#4. Finally (Evangeline) whispered, "I wish that I had been more prepared."
"We prepare all of our lives for such moments," Dr. Raphael said, crossing his arms and looking at me with a critical gaze. "When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.

Danielle Trussoni

#5. Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#6. Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. Indians are great lovers of cricket, they have always been that as far as I can remember - great followers of the game and have knowledge about the game.

Garfield Sobers

#8. The "us versus them" mindset coupled with our social nature implies that we have an innate need to belong to clearly defined in-groups.

Gad Saad

#9. No one's trying to get with jugglers.

Aziz Ansari

#10. We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.

Sidney Jourard

#11. Realizing God as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.

Emmet Fox

#12. Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.

Douglas Coupland

#13. All great work - artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual - is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves altogether, and are free from self-consciousness.

Walpola Rahula

#14. Some days I think she was really miserable, because she cried a lot. In a way, I'd had to steel my heart to her crying. You need to steel yourself to a lot of things when someone in your family is really sick.

Cynthia Kadohata

#15. Then there were those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure?

Alison Bechdel

#16. Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

Oscar Wilde