The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Happiness
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
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
-Sebastian Horsley
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
