The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Happiness
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 makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.
-William E. "Bill" Vaughan
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
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
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