“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”

“[on the secret to a happy, content life]Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.”

“The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.”

“What we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else. It is important to tell at least from time to time the secret of who we truly and fully are . . . because otherwise we run the risk of losing track of who we truly and fully are and little by little come to accept instead the highly edited version which we put forth in hope that the world will find it more acceptable than the real thing. It is important to tell our secrets too because it makes it easier . . . for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own . . . ”

“The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.”

“The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get.”