The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Happiness
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
