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)
The true secret to happiness is not to expect any one to make you happy. You are the only one than can make you happy