"The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past." ― Andre Maurois Topic(s): Happiness More From Andre Maurois "Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form." "An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along." "Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record." More In Happiness "An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."― Maurice Maeterlinck "As I’ve gotten older, I’ve gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It’s so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair."― Lauren Graham "So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who’s drunk come up and tell you you’re great."― Rick Derringer