The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Happiness
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy.
-Robert Holden
"Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good FAST"
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
