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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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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
Topic: Happiness
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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
Topic: Happiness
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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
Topic: Happiness
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A happy face is one of the most apparent indicators of pure delight.
- Santosh Kalwar
Nothing Shakes The Smiling Heart
Topic: Happiness
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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
Topic: Happiness
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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
Topic: Happiness
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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
Topic: Happiness
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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
Topic: Happiness
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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
Topic: Happiness
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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
Topic: Happiness
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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
Topic: Happiness
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Meditation makes us happier!
- Mia Randall
Topic: Happiness
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There are more triumphs than defeats with Cosmic Ordering.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Topic: Happiness, Success
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When life gives you lemons, use Cosmic Ordering!
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering Guide
Topic: Happiness, Success
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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
Topic: Happiness
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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
Topic: Happiness
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Sharing is caring.
- Asraa Abdelqader
Topic: Happiness
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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
Topic: Happiness
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If you can't see a benefit of the challenges in the present, know that you're giving a present to your future." —Bright Side Up: 100 Ways to Be Happier Right Now
- Amy Spencer
Topic: Happiness
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Therefore, for me, living true to my self may be defined as: Making the daily choices in all areas of my life that are in the best interests of my survival, evolution and prosperity, that aid the ongoing achievement of the highest physical, mental and spiritual objectives of which I am capable, that are based on the most correct assessment of reality I have available, and that honor the evolving truth of who I am and who I choose to be, all in the personal pursuit of freedom, function, fun, as well as the highest good of all.
- Walt F.J. Goodridge
Living True to Your Self: Reclaim your power! Break Free! Live the life of your dreams!
Topic: Happiness
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It is no coincidence that precisely when things started going downhill with the gods, politics gained its bliss-making character. There would be no reason for objecting to this, since the gods, too were not exactly fair. But at least people saw temples instead of termite architecture. Bliss is drawing closer; it is no longer in the afterlife, it will come, though not momentarily, sooner or later in the here and now - in time.

The anarch thinks more primitively; he refuses to give up any of his happiness. "Make thyself happy" is his basic law. It his response to the "Know thyself" at the temple of Apollo in Delphi. These two maxims complement each other; we must know our happiness and our measure.
- Ernst Jünger
Eumeswil
Topic: Happiness
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The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.
- Barry Unsworth
Sacred Hunger
Topic: Happiness, Success
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I terribly regret that my character is heavy, tedious, gloomy. I would like to be cheerful, easy-going, amorous, a daredevil. Only such people have fun, those not afraid to live!
- Konstantin Somov
Topic: Happiness
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Be grateful for what you have, for gratitude is the seed of happiness.
Be grateful for what you have, and let gratitude gently guide your next steps.
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Topic: Happiness, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
A happy face is one of the most apparent indicators of pure delight.
- Santosh Kalwar
Nothing Shakes The Smiling Heart
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?
- Guy de Maupassant
The Horla
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Benar. Kita tak pernah lagi menjumpai kebahagiaan yang setara dengan kebahagiaan masa kanak-kanak kita." Pablo mengangguk sedih.
- John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flat
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Meditation makes us happier!
- Mia Randall
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
There are more triumphs than defeats with Cosmic Ordering.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Topic: Happiness, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
When life gives you lemons, use Cosmic Ordering!
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering Guide
Topic: Happiness, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Sharing is caring.
- Asraa Abdelqader
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
If you can't see a benefit of the challenges in the present, know that you're giving a present to your future." —Bright Side Up: 100 Ways to Be Happier Right Now
- Amy Spencer
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Therefore, for me, living true to my self may be defined as: Making the daily choices in all areas of my life that are in the best interests of my survival, evolution and prosperity, that aid the ongoing achievement of the highest physical, mental and spiritual objectives of which I am capable, that are based on the most correct assessment of reality I have available, and that honor the evolving truth of who I am and who I choose to be, all in the personal pursuit of freedom, function, fun, as well as the highest good of all.
- Walt F.J. Goodridge
Living True to Your Self: Reclaim your power! Break Free! Live the life of your dreams!
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is no coincidence that precisely when things started going downhill with the gods, politics gained its bliss-making character. There would be no reason for objecting to this, since the gods, too were not exactly fair. But at least people saw temples instead of termite architecture. Bliss is drawing closer; it is no longer in the afterlife, it will come, though not momentarily, sooner or later in the here and now - in time.

The anarch thinks more primitively; he refuses to give up any of his happiness. "Make thyself happy" is his basic law. It his response to the "Know thyself" at the temple of Apollo in Delphi. These two maxims complement each other; we must know our happiness and our measure.
- Ernst Jünger
Eumeswil
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.
- Barry Unsworth
Sacred Hunger
Topic: Happiness, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
I terribly regret that my character is heavy, tedious, gloomy. I would like to be cheerful, easy-going, amorous, a daredevil. Only such people have fun, those not afraid to live!
- Konstantin Somov
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Be grateful for what you have, for gratitude is the seed of happiness.
Be grateful for what you have, and let gratitude gently guide your next steps.
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Topic: Happiness, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
A happy face is one of the most apparent indicators of pure delight.
- Santosh Kalwar
Nothing Shakes The Smiling Heart
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?
- Guy de Maupassant
The Horla
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Benar. Kita tak pernah lagi menjumpai kebahagiaan yang setara dengan kebahagiaan masa kanak-kanak kita." Pablo mengangguk sedih.
- John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flat
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Meditation makes us happier!
- Mia Randall
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
There are more triumphs than defeats with Cosmic Ordering.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Topic: Happiness, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
When life gives you lemons, use Cosmic Ordering!
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering Guide
Topic: Happiness, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Sharing is caring.
- Asraa Abdelqader
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
If you can't see a benefit of the challenges in the present, know that you're giving a present to your future." —Bright Side Up: 100 Ways to Be Happier Right Now
- Amy Spencer
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Therefore, for me, living true to my self may be defined as: Making the daily choices in all areas of my life that are in the best interests of my survival, evolution and prosperity, that aid the ongoing achievement of the highest physical, mental and spiritual objectives of which I am capable, that are based on the most correct assessment of reality I have available, and that honor the evolving truth of who I am and who I choose to be, all in the personal pursuit of freedom, function, fun, as well as the highest good of all.
- Walt F.J. Goodridge
Living True to Your Self: Reclaim your power! Break Free! Live the life of your dreams!
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is no coincidence that precisely when things started going downhill with the gods, politics gained its bliss-making character. There would be no reason for objecting to this, since the gods, too were not exactly fair. But at least people saw temples instead of termite architecture. Bliss is drawing closer; it is no longer in the afterlife, it will come, though not momentarily, sooner or later in the here and now - in time.

The anarch thinks more primitively; he refuses to give up any of his happiness. "Make thyself happy" is his basic law. It his response to the "Know thyself" at the temple of Apollo in Delphi. These two maxims complement each other; we must know our happiness and our measure.
- Ernst Jünger
Eumeswil
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.
- Barry Unsworth
Sacred Hunger
Topic: Happiness, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
I terribly regret that my character is heavy, tedious, gloomy. I would like to be cheerful, easy-going, amorous, a daredevil. Only such people have fun, those not afraid to live!
- Konstantin Somov
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Be grateful for what you have, for gratitude is the seed of happiness.
Be grateful for what you have, and let gratitude gently guide your next steps.
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Topic: Happiness, Motivational
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