Top 10 Tips For Happiness From Pope Francis

Pope Francis shared some simple advice for a happy, more fulfilled and long life.

Pope Francis

Speaking in an interview published in the Argentine weekly “Viva”, the Pope drew on his personal experiences to come up with his own lifestyle guide with a humble, anti-consumerist twist.

Pope Francis’s list of secrets to happiness (according to a Catholic News Service translation of the interview): 

1. “Live and let live.” Everyone should be guided by this principle, he said, which has a similar expression in Rome with the saying, “Move forward and let others do the same.”

2. “Be giving of yourself to others.” People need to be open and generous toward others, he said, because “if you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.”