The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Happiness
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
-Zaroaster "Zaroaster"
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
-Dale Carnegie
"How to Win Friends and Influence People"
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
