The secret of happiness is to ...

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
 F. H. Bradley

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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
 F. H. Bradley
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
 F. H. Bradley
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
 F. H. Bradley
His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.
 F. H. Bradley
The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
 F. H. Bradley