The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Happiness
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.
-William E. "Bill" Vaughan
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
-Sebastian Horsley
There is no end to craving. Hence, contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Stay content.
-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"
