Francois Lelord Quotes

Comparison is the death of joy.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Happiness is state of mind.

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

I've got everything I wanted so I'm just happy.

The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

We would be happier with what we have if we weren't so unhappy about what we don't' have

Some artists go through life not realizing that they have to be happy today. They're always thinking about the next job or the next thing: "I'll get this, then I'll be happy." Then you're miserable.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

I'm comfortable with the life I have.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.