Francois Lelord quotes:

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.

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.

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

Many people see happiness only in their future.

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.'

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

Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.

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

Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

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

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.

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