Andre Maurois Quotes About Happiness
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It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.
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Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
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