The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Happiness
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
-Kalidas "Kalidas"
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
