The right kind of happiness

by Chateaubriand

True happiness costs little. If it’s expensive, it’s the wrong kind.

François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848)

François-René de Chateaubriand was a writer, politician and diplomat, born in St Malo, Brittany. He was a key figure in the French Romantic movement, with literary works like ‘Atala’ (1801), inspired by his travels in North America.

Many years ago, as a month-long experiment, that then stuck) I wrote down every night the three things that had made me happiest that day. When I reviewed them at the end of the month it was interesting that most cost nothing or little.