Secret of Happiness Quotes

The Secret of Happiness
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves. – Ethel Perry Andrus

The secret of happiness… is to be happy already. – Julian Barnes

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. – J. M. Barrie

To be able to find joy in another’s joy: that is the secret of happiness. – George Bernanos

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. – F. H. Bradley

The secret of happiness is something to do. – John Burroughs

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. – Leo Buscaglia

This is the mysterious centre of Christian ethics, the divine secret of happiness: the individual triumphs in the renunciation of the individual. – Andre Gide

The secret of happiness lay in limiting the aspirations. – Thomas Hardy

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one’s self too seriously. – J. Kindleberger

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret of happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one’s uses. – Sarah Orne Jewett

Every job has drudgery. … The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact. – M. C. McIntosh

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you’re not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company. – Robert Morley

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. – V. S. Pritchett (also attributed to Sean O’Casey)

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. – Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is to own a convertible and a lake. If the sun shines, you can ride around in your convertible. If it rains, you can say, ‘At least the rain will fill up my lake.’ – Charles M. Schulz

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage. Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)