Andre Maurois Happiness Quotations

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.

Happiness flourishes where there is happiness.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us, that the most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.