“But sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less. That way, you'll never be disappointed.”

“Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less”

“There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”

“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations”

“I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.”

“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.”

“And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts. ”