The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Happiness
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
