The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Happiness
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.
-William E. "Bill" Vaughan
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or body’s satisfaction.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
