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Happiness is a feeling we all recognize, yet define in our own unique ways. The quotes that follow explore happiness as a choice, a journey, and a series of small moments that shape our lives. Together, they invite us to reflect on what truly brings joy and how we can nurture it every day.   ◀ Back
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Give up smoking cold turkey. Start a diet in the next 5 min. Accept that job right away. Life can be beautiful without planning!
- Rossana Condoleo
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Percy wakes me (fourteen)

Percy wakes me and I am not ready.
He has slept all night under the covers.
Now he’s eager for action: a walk, then breakfast.
So I hasten up. He is sitting on the kitchen counter
Where he is not supposed to be.
How wonderful you are, I say. How clever, if you
Needed me,
To wake me.
He thought he would a lecture and deeply
His eyes begin to shine.
He tumbles onto the couch for more compliments.
He squirms and squeals: he has done something
That he needed
And now he hears that it is okay.
I scratch his ears. I turn him over
And touch him everywhere. He is
Wild with the okayness of it. Then we walk, then
He has breakfast, and he is happy.
This is a poem about Percy.
This is a poem about more than Percy.
Think about it.
- Mary Oliver
Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
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We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it
- Ron Rash
Serena
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Peace and happiness are powerful weapons against the Egos.
- Belsebuub
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Nijedna tuđa sreća nije bez pomalo sreće i za nas druge. Zato je jedna velika mudrost od tuđe sreće praviti sreću i za sebe.
- Jovan Dučić
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Tudo parecia organizado da melhor forma possível, como se de fato o mundo constasse somente de palavras, como se assim o próprio horror fosse trazido para dimensões seguras, como se para cada aspecto de uma coisa houvesse um reverso, para cada mal um bem, para cada dissabor um prazer, para cada infelicidade uma felicidade e para cada mentira um quinhão de verdade.
- W.G. Sebald
Vertigo
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Happiness is like time and space--we make and measure it ourselves; it is a fancy--as big, as little, as you please; just a thing of contrasts and comparisons, like health or strength or beauty or any other good--that wouldn't even be noticed but for sad personal experience of its opposite!--or its greater!
- George Du Maurier
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The kind of happy I was that day at the Vet when "Hawk" Dawson actually doffed his red "C" cap to me, and everyone cheered and practically convulsed into tears - you can't patent that. It was one shining moment of glory that was instantly gone. Whereas life, real life, is different and can't even be appraised as simply "happy", but only in terms of "Yes, I'll take it all, thanks" or "No, I believe I won't." Happy, as my poor father used to say, is a lot of hooey. Happy is a circus clown, a sitcom, a greeting card. Life, though, life's about something sterner. But also something better. A lot better. Believe me.
- Richard Ford
The Lay of the Land
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A happy face is one of the most apparent indicators of pure delight.
- Santosh Kalwar
Nothing Shakes The Smiling Heart
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Holiness doesn’t demand denial of happiness, only selfishness. Where unhappiness exists in a relationship, I would submit that such isn’t the price of holiness but a sign of sin. It is an indication that one or both partners is holding to the wrong value system, that of self-love.

When husbands and wives love each other with agape, they meet the deepest needs God designed to be met in the very manner He intended. The result is a joy that is complete and a relationship where happiness is the fruit of holiness and meaning is the consequence of a loving relationship.
- —James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
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Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?
- Guy de Maupassant
The Horla
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Life’s good when it’s lived for oneself; it’s great when lived for others. The true means of happiness is to lose your mind by thinking for others!
- Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders' Watchwords
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Let the love of the moon kiss you good night,
let the morning sun wake you up with loving light.
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Hope is a dream of which we long to have. Don't let anyone ever tell you that you can't hope for something because hope brings joy and joy brings happiness and its all tied up in a big ball of love.
- Peace Gypsy
Souls Deep
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If I die very young, hear this:
I was never anything but a kid playing.
I was a heathen like the sun and the water,
I had the universal religion only people don’t have.
I was happy because I didn’t ask for anything at all,
Or tried to find anything,
And I didn’t find any more explanation
Than the word explanation having no meaning at all.
- Alberto Caeiro
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
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There I am, in the Grade Six class picture, smiling broadly. Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hardshelled, firmly closed.
- Margaret Atwood
Cat’s Eye
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Benar. Kita tak pernah lagi menjumpai kebahagiaan yang setara dengan kebahagiaan masa kanak-kanak kita." Pablo mengangguk sedih.
- John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flat
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Meditation makes us happier!
- Mia Randall
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There are more triumphs than defeats with Cosmic Ordering.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
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When life gives you lemons, use Cosmic Ordering!
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering Guide
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He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the handle, and dropped in a dollop of honey and cream. He sat by the window, cup in hand, watching the first snow fall. "I am," he sighed deeply, "contented as a clam. I am a most happy man.
- Ethel Pochocki
Wildflower Tea
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As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.
- Charles Baxter
The Feast of Love
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Sharing is caring.
- Asraa Abdelqader
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The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom.
- T.F. Hodge
From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
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Give up smoking cold turkey. Start a diet in the next 5 min. Accept that job right away. Life can be beautiful without planning!
- Rossana Condoleo
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Percy wakes me (fourteen)

Percy wakes me and I am not ready.
He has slept all night under the covers.
Now he’s eager for action: a walk, then breakfast.
So I hasten up. He is sitting on the kitchen counter
Where he is not supposed to be.
How wonderful you are, I say. How clever, if you
Needed me,
To wake me.
He thought he would a lecture and deeply
His eyes begin to shine.
He tumbles onto the couch for more compliments.
He squirms and squeals: he has done something
That he needed
And now he hears that it is okay.
I scratch his ears. I turn him over
And touch him everywhere. He is
Wild with the okayness of it. Then we walk, then
He has breakfast, and he is happy.
This is a poem about Percy.
This is a poem about more than Percy.
Think about it.
- Mary Oliver
Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it
- Ron Rash
Serena
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Peace and happiness are powerful weapons against the Egos.
- Belsebuub
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nijedna tuđa sreća nije bez pomalo sreće i za nas druge. Zato je jedna velika mudrost od tuđe sreće praviti sreću i za sebe.
- Jovan Dučić
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Tudo parecia organizado da melhor forma possível, como se de fato o mundo constasse somente de palavras, como se assim o próprio horror fosse trazido para dimensões seguras, como se para cada aspecto de uma coisa houvesse um reverso, para cada mal um bem, para cada dissabor um prazer, para cada infelicidade uma felicidade e para cada mentira um quinhão de verdade.
- W.G. Sebald
Vertigo
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Happiness is like time and space--we make and measure it ourselves; it is a fancy--as big, as little, as you please; just a thing of contrasts and comparisons, like health or strength or beauty or any other good--that wouldn't even be noticed but for sad personal experience of its opposite!--or its greater!
- George Du Maurier
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The kind of happy I was that day at the Vet when "Hawk" Dawson actually doffed his red "C" cap to me, and everyone cheered and practically convulsed into tears - you can't patent that. It was one shining moment of glory that was instantly gone. Whereas life, real life, is different and can't even be appraised as simply "happy", but only in terms of "Yes, I'll take it all, thanks" or "No, I believe I won't." Happy, as my poor father used to say, is a lot of hooey. Happy is a circus clown, a sitcom, a greeting card. Life, though, life's about something sterner. But also something better. A lot better. Believe me.
- Richard Ford
The Lay of the Land
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A happy face is one of the most apparent indicators of pure delight.
- Santosh Kalwar
Nothing Shakes The Smiling Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Holiness doesn’t demand denial of happiness, only selfishness. Where unhappiness exists in a relationship, I would submit that such isn’t the price of holiness but a sign of sin. It is an indication that one or both partners is holding to the wrong value system, that of self-love.

When husbands and wives love each other with agape, they meet the deepest needs God designed to be met in the very manner He intended. The result is a joy that is complete and a relationship where happiness is the fruit of holiness and meaning is the consequence of a loving relationship.
- —James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?
- Guy de Maupassant
The Horla
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life’s good when it’s lived for oneself; it’s great when lived for others. The true means of happiness is to lose your mind by thinking for others!
- Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders' Watchwords
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let the love of the moon kiss you good night,
let the morning sun wake you up with loving light.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope is a dream of which we long to have. Don't let anyone ever tell you that you can't hope for something because hope brings joy and joy brings happiness and its all tied up in a big ball of love.
- Peace Gypsy
Souls Deep
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If I die very young, hear this:
I was never anything but a kid playing.
I was a heathen like the sun and the water,
I had the universal religion only people don’t have.
I was happy because I didn’t ask for anything at all,
Or tried to find anything,
And I didn’t find any more explanation
Than the word explanation having no meaning at all.
- Alberto Caeiro
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There I am, in the Grade Six class picture, smiling broadly. Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hardshelled, firmly closed.
- Margaret Atwood
Cat’s Eye
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Benar. Kita tak pernah lagi menjumpai kebahagiaan yang setara dengan kebahagiaan masa kanak-kanak kita." Pablo mengangguk sedih.
- John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Meditation makes us happier!
- Mia Randall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are more triumphs than defeats with Cosmic Ordering.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When life gives you lemons, use Cosmic Ordering!
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering Guide
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the handle, and dropped in a dollop of honey and cream. He sat by the window, cup in hand, watching the first snow fall. "I am," he sighed deeply, "contented as a clam. I am a most happy man.
- Ethel Pochocki
Wildflower Tea
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.
- Charles Baxter
The Feast of Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sharing is caring.
- Asraa Abdelqader
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom.
- T.F. Hodge
From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Give up smoking cold turkey. Start a diet in the next 5 min. Accept that job right away. Life can be beautiful without planning!
- Rossana Condoleo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Percy wakes me (fourteen)

Percy wakes me and I am not ready.
He has slept all night under the covers.
Now he’s eager for action: a walk, then breakfast.
So I hasten up. He is sitting on the kitchen counter
Where he is not supposed to be.
How wonderful you are, I say. How clever, if you
Needed me,
To wake me.
He thought he would a lecture and deeply
His eyes begin to shine.
He tumbles onto the couch for more compliments.
He squirms and squeals: he has done something
That he needed
And now he hears that it is okay.
I scratch his ears. I turn him over
And touch him everywhere. He is
Wild with the okayness of it. Then we walk, then
He has breakfast, and he is happy.
This is a poem about Percy.
This is a poem about more than Percy.
Think about it.
- Mary Oliver
Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it
- Ron Rash
Serena
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Peace and happiness are powerful weapons against the Egos.
- Belsebuub
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nijedna tuđa sreća nije bez pomalo sreće i za nas druge. Zato je jedna velika mudrost od tuđe sreće praviti sreću i za sebe.
- Jovan Dučić
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Tudo parecia organizado da melhor forma possível, como se de fato o mundo constasse somente de palavras, como se assim o próprio horror fosse trazido para dimensões seguras, como se para cada aspecto de uma coisa houvesse um reverso, para cada mal um bem, para cada dissabor um prazer, para cada infelicidade uma felicidade e para cada mentira um quinhão de verdade.
- W.G. Sebald
Vertigo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is like time and space--we make and measure it ourselves; it is a fancy--as big, as little, as you please; just a thing of contrasts and comparisons, like health or strength or beauty or any other good--that wouldn't even be noticed but for sad personal experience of its opposite!--or its greater!
- George Du Maurier
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The kind of happy I was that day at the Vet when "Hawk" Dawson actually doffed his red "C" cap to me, and everyone cheered and practically convulsed into tears - you can't patent that. It was one shining moment of glory that was instantly gone. Whereas life, real life, is different and can't even be appraised as simply "happy", but only in terms of "Yes, I'll take it all, thanks" or "No, I believe I won't." Happy, as my poor father used to say, is a lot of hooey. Happy is a circus clown, a sitcom, a greeting card. Life, though, life's about something sterner. But also something better. A lot better. Believe me.
- Richard Ford
The Lay of the Land
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A happy face is one of the most apparent indicators of pure delight.
- Santosh Kalwar
Nothing Shakes The Smiling Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Holiness doesn’t demand denial of happiness, only selfishness. Where unhappiness exists in a relationship, I would submit that such isn’t the price of holiness but a sign of sin. It is an indication that one or both partners is holding to the wrong value system, that of self-love.

When husbands and wives love each other with agape, they meet the deepest needs God designed to be met in the very manner He intended. The result is a joy that is complete and a relationship where happiness is the fruit of holiness and meaning is the consequence of a loving relationship.
- —James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?
- Guy de Maupassant
The Horla
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life’s good when it’s lived for oneself; it’s great when lived for others. The true means of happiness is to lose your mind by thinking for others!
- Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders' Watchwords
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let the love of the moon kiss you good night,
let the morning sun wake you up with loving light.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope is a dream of which we long to have. Don't let anyone ever tell you that you can't hope for something because hope brings joy and joy brings happiness and its all tied up in a big ball of love.
- Peace Gypsy
Souls Deep
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If I die very young, hear this:
I was never anything but a kid playing.
I was a heathen like the sun and the water,
I had the universal religion only people don’t have.
I was happy because I didn’t ask for anything at all,
Or tried to find anything,
And I didn’t find any more explanation
Than the word explanation having no meaning at all.
- Alberto Caeiro
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There I am, in the Grade Six class picture, smiling broadly. Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hardshelled, firmly closed.
- Margaret Atwood
Cat’s Eye
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Benar. Kita tak pernah lagi menjumpai kebahagiaan yang setara dengan kebahagiaan masa kanak-kanak kita." Pablo mengangguk sedih.
- John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Meditation makes us happier!
- Mia Randall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are more triumphs than defeats with Cosmic Ordering.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When life gives you lemons, use Cosmic Ordering!
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering Guide
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the handle, and dropped in a dollop of honey and cream. He sat by the window, cup in hand, watching the first snow fall. "I am," he sighed deeply, "contented as a clam. I am a most happy man.
- Ethel Pochocki
Wildflower Tea
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.
- Charles Baxter
The Feast of Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sharing is caring.
- Asraa Abdelqader
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom.
- T.F. Hodge
From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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101
102
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