The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
Quotations
Happiness
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
