47 Quotes by François Lelord

Notice that we say 'more psychiatrists than anywhere else in the world' but we could just as well say more swimming pools, more Nobel prizewinners, more strategic bombers, more apple pies, more computers, more natural parks, more libraries, more cheerleaders, more serial killers, more newspapers, more racoons, more of many more things, because it was the country of More, and had been for a long time.

Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

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

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

Many people see happiness only in their future.

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

Listening is loving

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

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 didn't find them particularly nice, or they were neither nice nor exciting and she wondered why she was with them at all. She found a way of making the exciting men nicer and that was by leaving them. But then, they weren't exciting anymore either.