Top 100 Secret Happiness Quotes
#1. Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the road of lovers. In wild and secret happiness we stumbled; and gods and demons clamoured in our senses.
Siegfried Sassoon
#2. In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#3. In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#4. The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.
Ayad Akhtar
#5. The knowledge of the Spirit is the true secret of creativity, leadership and happiness. It is spiritual intelligence that makes an ordinary person a genius. When a genius loses his spiritual intelligence, he becomes quite ordinary.
Awdhesh Singh
#6. For me, my targets are more important than my happiness and that is the secret of my happiness.
Amit Kalantri
#7. The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
Paulo Coelho
#8. The secret of happiness is to ignore your reflection in mirrors once you're over forty.
David Mitchell
#9. We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
Ethel Percy Andrus
#10. There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.
Bertrand Russell
#11. The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.
Gautama Buddha
#12. You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
Percy Ross
#13. The secret to happiness is complaining very little.
Nikki Rowe
#14. Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the
simple and beautiful things around him.
Billy Graham
#15. That is how our marriage is working so well. My secret of happiness is keeping my contact to the minimum.
Cyrus Broacha
#16. The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, the wonder of our breathing. We don't have to travel anywhere else to do so. We can be in touch with these things right now.
Nhat Hanh
#17. The secret to happiness is the journey, not the destination.
Claire Chilton
#18. The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.
Ruth Reichl
#19. The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.
Theodor Reik
#20. I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.
Diane Lane
#21. If happiness could be bought, we'd probably be unhappy at the price tag. If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting wealthy and spending more.
Patrick Dixon
#22. Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.
Robin Sharma
#23. I'm not sure what the secret to happiness is but I'm pretty sure it all starts with going outside.
Tom Rosenthal
#24. As a child i used to complain to my father about not having toys and he would say (calvero points at his own head) this is the greatest toy ever created. Here lies the secret of all happiness.
Anonymous
#25. The secret o' health, happiness and success is deep breathing, buttermilk instead o' beer, your bedroom window open, a penny a week and a mind weel disciplined.
Neil Munro
#26. I've had an absolutely charmed life in every aspect of it. I do for my job what I would do for a hobby if it wasn't my job. Half the secret of happiness, I'm ecstatically happily married with three great kids, you know. It's been a blessed life.
Graeme Base
#27. It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else ...
Robert A. Heinlein
#28. Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)
Peter S. Beagle
#29. Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.
Christian Dior
#30. The secret to happiness is to embrace the humility to accept what comes and the courage to continue on your life's path with an open heart.
Mary Alice Monroe
#31. The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
Bertrand Russell
#32. When the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in.
Tom Althouse
#33. The secret of a successful life isn't the success but happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#34. Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.
John Dalton
#35. Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,
service is the secret.
Kathleen Norris
#36. Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.
Robertson Davies
#37. Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.
James Cagney
#38. The secret of happiness is living in accordance with how one thinks. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don't expect others to live like me. I want to respect people's freedom but I defend my freedom.
Jose Mujica
#39. Clearly the secret of happiness ... is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.
Stef Penney
#40. It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#41. The secret only harvests the hurt next to our hearts, blocking the sunlight from the spot where happiness is supposed to grow.
Lexi Ryan
#42. But once you cross the Shannon - even though geographically you have only come a short distance - different rules of time apply, and most people still understand the crucial secret of human happiness: that it's better to do a few things slowly, than a lot of things fast.
Pete McCarthy
#43. A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
Thomas Jefferson
#44. The secret to happiness ... be satisfied and be grateful.
Mitch Albom
#45. The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V.S. Pritchett
#46. Outside the store, beauty and mystery struggled to come together. Inside, they held hands, giggled to one another, and whispered secret messages.
Lawren Leo
#47. Those who won our independence ... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis D. Brandeis
#48. That is the secret of happiness and virtue
liking what you've got to do.
Aldous Huxley
#49. It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.
Nicholas Sparks
#50. Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live. Don't proselytize. Work for peace. Work at a job that offers basic human dignity. Don't hold on to negative feelings. Move calmly through life. Enjoy art, books and playfulness.
Timothy Egan
#51. The secret to happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg
#52. The secret of true happiness lies within unwavering devotion to God
Radhe Maa
#53. The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
J.M. Barrie
#54. The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job.
Yvon Chouinard
#55. There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
Karisma Kapoor
#57. Being your authentic self is the ultimate secret to happiness in life!
Sheri Fink
#59. Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will may enter.
Ernest Holmes
#60. And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.
Aldous Huxley
#61. This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.
Peter Kreeft
#62. I succeed in almost everything I do. My secret is persistence.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Well there is only one piece of advice I can give you' said the wisest of the wise men. 'The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never forget the drops of oil on the spoon
Paulo Coelho
#64. The secret of happiness is to be loving, cheerful, and appreciative.
Debasish Mridha
#65. The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#66. Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words.
Peter Abelard
#67. The real secret of happiness is not what you give or what you receive, it's what you share.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#68. The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.
P.D. James
#69. The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.
John Mortimer
#70. You know, wanting what you have is supposedly the secret of happiness.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
#71. The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#72. No man with a complex life can be happy! The simple secret of the happiness is simple life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#73. MODERATION.SMALL HELPINGS. SAMPLE A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING. THESE ARE THE SECRETS OF HAPPINESS AND GOOD HEALTH.
Julia Child
#74. To those who have not yet learned the secret of true happiness, begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.
George Washington Carver
#75. The secret to a happy life is simply your attitude.
Gloria Tesch
#76. The secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it. Once you do this, abundance flows into your life and all your desires are filled with ease and grace. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Robin S. Sharma
#77. I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
Jilly Cooper
#78. The secret gives you anything you want; happiness, health, and wealth.
Bob Proctor
#79. He believed that the secret of happiness was to concentrate on things outside oneself. Introspection and self-awareness were the enemies of contentment, and
James Runcie
#80. It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#81. Life is about the good and the bad. Good is easy. Bad is hard. Finding a way to make good from the bad is the secret. The few who discover the ability within themselves
nothing can stand in their way of happiness.
Landon Parham
#82. I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
Adam Clarke
#84. The city was new again, and newly dangerous, and I would walk the streets quickly, eyes averted from those of passersby, like a spy in the employ of lust and happiness, carrying the secret deep within me but always on the tip of my tongue.
Michael Chabon
#85. Here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail.
Thomas De Quincey
#86. Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and emotional in such circumstances as you or I, but their secret weapon is the poise and strength they show in coping in the face of challenge.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#87. It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.
J.M. Barrie
#88. You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light
Norman Vincent Peale
#89. Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.
Lewis Black
#90. Knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.
Thucydides
#91. To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.
Robert Morley
#92. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.
Eckhart Tolle
#93. Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#94. I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.
Chuck Palahniuk
#97. They were two happy lovers among the crowd, and they came to suspect that love could be a feeling that was more relaxing and deep than the happiness, wild but momentary, of their secret nights.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#98. To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
Georges Bernanos
#100. The secret of happiness is very simply 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
