The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Happiness
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.
-William E. "Bill" Vaughan
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but its here if you choose to come back to it.
-Ilona Andrews
"Magic Bleeds"
Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.
-Peter Deunov
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
