Top 100 The Secret Of Happiness Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The secret of happiness is to ignore your reflection in mirrors once you're over forty.
David Mitchell
#3. The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.
Gautama Buddha
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
Bertrand Russell
#8. 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
#9. Clearly the secret of happiness ... is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.
Stef Penney
#10. The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V.S. Pritchett
#11. 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
#12. That is the secret of happiness and virtue
liking what you've got to do.
Aldous Huxley
#13. The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
J.M. Barrie
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. The secret of happiness is to be loving, cheerful, and appreciative.
Debasish Mridha
#19. You know, wanting what you have is supposedly the secret of happiness.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
Adam Clarke
#23. 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
#24. It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.
J.M. Barrie
#25. 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
#28. To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
Georges Bernanos
#29. 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
#30. The secret of happiness is freedom.
Thucydides
#31. I remember when I switched from Christmas to sex as the secret of happiness ...
Garrison Keillor
#32. You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.
Eugene O'Neill
#33. Maybe that was the secret of happiness
not expecting any one thing to last forever.
Barbara Samuel
#34. The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. - Socrates
Leo Babauta
#35. RVM Thoughts for Today -
The Secret of HAPPINESS - Enjoy what you are doing or stop and do what you enjoy.
R.v.m.
#36. The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.
Carrie Jones
#37. The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
J. Donald Walters
#39. The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#40. Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.
Waller R Newell
#41. The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
Daniel Gilbert
#42. The secret of happiness is freedom but to be totally free you need to earn: courage, persistence and boldness.
Santosh Kalwar
#43. The secret of happiness is to enjoy the moment, without allowing unhappy memories or fear of the future to shadow the shining present.
Elizabeth Peters
#44. The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion ...
Margaret Deland
#45. It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.
Jules Verne
#46. What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia
#47. The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
Daniel Dennett
#48. The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.
Margaret Thatcher
#49. Every moment that's ever been, or ever will be, is gone the instant it's begun. So life is loss. And the secret of happiness is to learn to love the moment more than you mourn the loss.
Dan Baker
#50. The secret of happiness is love and secret of love is nonjudgmental care.
Debasish Mridha
#51. The Secret of Happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F.H. Bradley
#52. The secret of happiness is simply this ... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.
Michael Neill
#53. The Secret of Happiness lies in looking at all the wonders of the world and never forgetting the two drops of oil in the spoon.
Paulo Coelho
#54. I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
John Burroughs
#55. But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
Virginia Woolf
#56. The secret of happiness lies in the lifestyle of a child who lives in present; past and future are only the grammar thing for him.
Ankit Rawat
#57. The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
J.M. Coetzee
#58. The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.
Ayad Akhtar
#59. 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
#60. For me, my targets are more important than my happiness and that is the secret of my happiness.
Amit Kalantri
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. That is how our marriage is working so well. My secret of happiness is keeping my contact to the minimum.
Cyrus Broacha
#65. 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
#66. The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.
Theodor Reik
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)
Peter S. Beagle
#70. When the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in.
Tom Althouse
#71. The secret of a successful life isn't the success but happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.
James Cagney
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. The secret of true happiness lies within unwavering devotion to God
Radhe Maa
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#83. 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
#84. The real secret of happiness is not what you give or what you receive, it's what you share.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. No man with a complex life can be happy! The simple secret of the happiness is simple life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. MODERATION.SMALL HELPINGS. SAMPLE A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING. THESE ARE THE SECRETS OF HAPPINESS AND GOOD HEALTH.
Julia Child
#90. 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
#91. I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
Jilly Cooper
#92. 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
#93. The secret gives you anything you want; happiness, health, and wealth.
Bob Proctor
#94. 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
#95. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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