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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“Why hadn’t he realized this before? Everyone knew that if you divided realityby expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you inverted the equation-expectationdivided by reality-you didn’t get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.Pure logic: Assuming reality was constant, expectation had to be greater than reality to createoptimism. On the other hand, a pessimist was someone with expectations lower than reality, afraction of diminishing returns. The human condition meant that this number approached zerowithout reaching it-you never really completely gave up hope; it might come flooding back at anyprovocation.”