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Mar 12, 2008

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." --Richard Bach

The Professor of Happiness

"For the second time in two weeks, I took the train from the Netherlands to Paris, and for the second time in two weeks I missed my connection in Rotterdam. The first time I got pretty irritated. The second time I didn't. The key was simple and as old as the hills, but it works like a charm: Try to enjoy the moment. During my second trip, I was reading Vivre Heureux ("How to lead a happy life"), a book by Christophe Andre, the French psychiatrist I was going to interview in Paris. In the first chapter he quoted Voltaire, who wrote, 'I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health.'" So begins this interview from Ode Magazine with the "Professor of Happiness."