“Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.”
François Lelord book Hector and the Search for Happiness
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
Source: Styxx
“Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.”
François Lelord book Hector and the Search for Happiness
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Love and Death (1975)
“It's what's inthat makes you happy or unhappy.”
Agatha Christie book A Murder Is Announced
Source: A Murder Is Announced
“It is a kind of happiness to know how unhappy we must be.”
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs
C’est une espèce de bonheur, de connaître jusqu’à quel point on doit être malheureux.
Maxim 8 of the Maximes supprimées.
Later Additions to the Maxims
Guy Finley (1949) American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician
Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“We drink one another's health and spoil our own.”
Jerome K. Jerome book Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
"On Eating and Drinking".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
“Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra