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

“Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be.”

“You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.”

“Reality is reality. It is the way things are, not the way you want them to be in your head.”

“Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.”

“The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.”

“The least you can do is investigate. The minimum that is expected of you as a sentient being is to question your reality.”

“Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.”

“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.”

“You must remember, once more, that expectations are the blocks with which you build your reality. There are no exceptions to this rule.”