The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Happiness
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
