"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."
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"My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art."
"True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities."
"Family [10w] Family is a truth pill ~ just beware of an overdose."
"People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop."
"Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right."
"The 'Ugly' Poet [10w] Poets develop cleverness with wordsto compensate for their unattractiveness."
"American Foreign Policy [10w] Foreign Policy requires dealing from the bottom of the deck."
"The Flood that Did Not Subside [10w] What would today's world be,If Noah's dove flew into obscurity?"
"In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene."
"Happiness earned, not given."
"North Dakota Haiku "My bib overallslook spiffy at a weddingor a funeral."
"The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship"
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."
"She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues."
"Illinois State Motto State sovereignty, national union.Life begins and ends with corruption."
"Cosmic Ordering is like an echo! What you ask for comes back."
"Bonjour [10w] You're more obscure than first we met,"uttered with regret."
"Love vs. Mental Illness [10w] Love, like mental illness, comes on graduallyand then suddenly."
"The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit."