He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year’s harvest.

by adding together these three differences – between what we have and what we’d like to have, what we have now and the best of what we’ve had in the past, and what we have...

He looked at Hector’s list and told him that, thanks to a lot of studies and calculations, they’d shown that if you compared yourself to others and didn’t find yourself wanting, if you had no...

Lesson no. 1: Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

He wondered why he wasn’t as in love with her as he was with…Hector had only shared enjoyment with (her)…he shared everything, enjoyment and sorrow…but for some time now they’d shared too much frustration, boredom...

Lesson no. 3: Many people see happiness only in their future.

those who believed in the Good Lord, for whom death was just a journey, and it didn’t make them sad at all

Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.

Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.

Happiness. We’re tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven’s sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn’t, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment...

The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!

Adeline was really rather charming, she always had a man in her life, but it never worked out: either they were nice but she didn’t find them very exciting; or they were exciting but she...

Many people see happiness only in their future.

And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little unhappy himself. He began to wonder if he...

It’s one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

Or rather, he was sad because that morning he’d understood that he’d understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn’t sad at all, but now that he’d understood that he’d understood nothing he...

Lesson no. 20: Happiness is a certain way of seeing things.

Some people, very many actually, both men and women, complained of having enjoyed a very loving relationship with someone, but of no longer feeling the same way despite still being very fond of that person,...

Basically, having a gift for happiness was a bit like being good at maths or games: it depended partly on the development of the brain after you were born, ad even before, but also on...

He had fallen in love with her emotions, and that was a very profound feeling indeed.

Exciting happiness is joy, celebration, travelling, being in bed with a woman you desire.