The Economic Times

Happiness Habit of the day by Albert Einstein: A happy man is too content with the present to dwell too much on the future, German physicists inspiring lesson on why to stop postponing happiness

Albert Einstein is widely attributed with the thought that a happy person is too content with the present to dwell excessively on the future. The quote offers a simple lesson in contentment, suggesting that constantly postponing happiness until the next achievement can make satisfaction harder to find. Einsteins life and scientific legacy included groundbreaking work on relativity, quantum theory, Brownian motion, mass-energy equivalence and the photoelectric effect.