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François Lelord is a French psychiatrist and author.
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Basically, having a gift for happiness was a bit like being good at maths or games: it depended partly on the development of the brain after you were born, ad even before, but also on how your parents or other adults had brought you up when you were ...

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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 n...

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He had fallen in love with her emotions, and that was a very profound feeling indeed.

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Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

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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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Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

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

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

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Many people see happiness only in their future.

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

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Lesson no. 20: Happiness is a certain way of seeing things.

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Exciting happiness is joy, celebration, travelling, being in bed with a woman you desire.

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He looked at Hector's list and told him that, thanks to a lot of studies and calculations, they'd shown that if you compared yourself to others and didn't find yourself wanting, if you had no money or health problems, if you had friends, a close-knit...

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And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little unhappy himself. He began to wonder if he was in the right profession, whether he was happy with life, whethe...

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Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about p...

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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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He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.

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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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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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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...

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Author Bio

  • NameFrancois Lelord
  • DescriptionFrench writer
  • BornJune 22, 1953
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionAuthor