The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...
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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