Top 51 Francois Lelord Quotes
#1. He had realised that it was Clara he loved, and that he loved her in many different ways. (Because there are even more ways of loving than there are ways of being happy, but it would take another book to explain them all.)
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#2. Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.
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#3. He didn't necessarily think that it was okay, but when a psychiatrist says 'okay', it just means 'I understand what you're saying.
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#4. People fall in love more easily when they are already troubled by another emotion because we know that any intense emotional state greatly increases the risk of falling in love.
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#6. Lesson no. 12: It's harder to be happy in a country run by bad people.
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#8. Or rather, he was sad because that morning he'd understood that he'd understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn't sad at all, but now that he'd understood that he'd understood nothing he felt sad, if you follow.
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#9. Nobody wants to live with a person who'll never be happy.
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#11. True wisdom would be the ability to live without this scenery, to be the same person even at the bottom of a well. But that, it has to be said, is not so easy.
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#12. Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.
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#13. Because the problem with psychiatry is that you mostly study people who aren't doing so well, whereas if you spent a little more time studying people who are doing very well, it might give you some good ideas to help the ones who are not.
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#14. Women are very complicated, even if you are a psychiatrist.
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#16. Those who believed in the Good Lord, for whom death was just a journey, and it didn't make them sad at all
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#17. He wondered why he wasn't as in love with her as he was with ... Hector had only shared enjoyment with (her) ... he shared everything, enjoyment and sorrow ... but for some time now they'd shared too much frustration, boredom and fatigue.
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#18. Because there are times when getting up to mischief isn't mischievous and other times when it is and you shouldn't do it.
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#20. There's no point in looking before crossing the road if you don't look in the right direction.
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#21. Exciting happiness is joy, celebration, travelling, being in bed with a woman you desire.
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#22. [T]he greatest gift you can give someone is to introduce them to someone new.
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#23. The old monk said, 'The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!' And
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#24. Because they know that people will be kinder to a child who smiles.
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#25. You must be careful when you ask people whether they're happy; it's a question that can upset them a great deal.
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#27. Lesson no. 20: Happiness is a certain way of seeing things.
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#28. [P]erhaps this was how you knew a good deed was truly good: you didn't necessarily feel better afterwards.
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#29. I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.
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#31. Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.
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#32. It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.
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#33. Nature or nurture' said the professor. 'Whichever way the parents are to blame
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#34. But, in reality, being unhappy might also teach him something about happiness.
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#35. He had fallen in love with her emotions, and that was a very profound feeling indeed.
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#36. The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!
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#38. Edouard said that he didn't take Hector for a fool, but he could see that Hector had fallen in love, which was worse than being a fool.
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#39. Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.
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#41. The only shadow on my happiness is when I tell myself sometimes that as it's all going well, it can't last, that one day things won't be so good.
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#42. Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.
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#43. Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.
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#44. Did the squirrel realize how lucky he was to be there? Or on the contrary did he spend his life wondering whether he might not be better off somewhere else, or feeling that he didn't have the life he deserved? In the end, it depended on the comparisons the squirrel was able to make
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#45. He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.
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#46. Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.'
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#47. He knew his love for her was more a desire to save her, to be her superhero, and it was partly a desire to do what people who are in love do, and partly a desire to feel young again with her, because Ying Li was very young, and she looked even younger.
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#48. Music is a very good way of thinking about time. A note only moves you because you remember the one before, and you're waiting for the next ... Each one only means something wrapped in a bit of the past and the future.
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#50. I'm old enough to ask myself that question, but not so old that I don't care what the answer is.
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#51. Some people, very many actually, both men and women, complained of having enjoyed a very loving relationship with someone, but of no longer feeling the same way despite still being very fond of that person, with whom they generally lived.
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