The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. Andre Maurois More Quotes by Andre Maurois More Quotes From Andre Maurois Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. Andre Maurois real motivational life A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. Andre Maurois anniversary happiness love Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. Andre Maurois learning freedom simple If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. Andre Maurois virtue destiny character A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected. Andre Maurois women weakness strong A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. Andre Maurois anniversary success love Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. Andre Maurois family inspirational men We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence. Andre Maurois insolence appreciate self-esteem A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world. Andre Maurois love-you love-is blood We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her. Andre Maurois women The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. Andre Maurois reading book art To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. Andre Maurois too-much humor witty Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them. Andre Maurois confidence smile self The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. Andre Maurois argument opinion arguing The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent. Andre Maurois real writing spring There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. Andre Maurois truth-is certain poison Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open. Andre Maurois anxiety doe bird One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them. Andre Maurois littles character children You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him. Andre Maurois love men We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities. Andre Maurois quality appreciation love
