The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Happiness
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
