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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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The resonant space of nondual therapy allows client and practitioner to remain distinct yet ultimately inseparable through their shared being. This is intimacy and compassion at the deepest level, transcending subject/object division while not denying individuality, sensations, feelings or boundaries. As Rumi expressed, 'We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.
- Laura Patryas
Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
Topic: Happiness
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Suffering persists when we resist accepting the complementary polarities of emotions like grief and joy. Every conflict contains the seeds of its resolution. As the Hindu sage Patanjali stated in one of his Yoga Sutras, 'By experiencing the pairs of opposites, suffering ceases. When distress arises, ride opposing thoughts back into nondual awareness. By reversing instability into stability, from refusing into non-refusing, suffering is relinquished. Through disidentification, the pairs of opposites cease their noxious effect. By reversing the pairs of opposites stability and the release of suffering are quickly achieved.
- Laura Patryas
Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am reborn. This is my dawn. Real life has just begun. Deliberate living. Conscious attention to your immediate environment and its concerns. examples include: a job, a task, a book, anything requiring efficient concentration. (Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon….what it means to you).
The Great Holiness of FOOD, the Vital Heat.
Positivism, the Insurpassable Joy of the Life Aesthetic.
Absolute Truth and Honesty.
Reality.
Independence.
Finality-Stability-Consistency.
- Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild
Topic: Happiness
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Isn't life wonderful, isn't life marvelous? Everything good is happening right now all at once, every second, minute, and hour of the day!
- Virginia Toole
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is like the lunar cycle,
sometimes it is full shining,
sometimes it is half shining,
other times it goes totally dark.

The unpredictability of life
is what makes life predictable.
Sometimes it rains cats and dogs,
the next moment sunshine is unavoidable.
- Abhijit Naskar
Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
Topic: Happiness
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Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead
- Neil Gaiman
American Gods
Topic: Death, Happiness
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Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care.
Topic: Education, Happiness, Hope, Philosophical
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A cultivated mind—I do not mean that of a philosopher, but any mind to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties—finds sources of inexhaustible interest in all that surrounds it: in the objects of nature, the achievements of art, the imaginations of poetry, the incidents of history, the ways of mankind, past and present, and their prospects in the future.
- John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
Topic: Education, Happiness
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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
Topic: Education, Happiness
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Let the love of the moon kiss you good night,
let the morning sun wake you up with loving light.
Topic: Education, Happiness, Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Topic: Funny, Happiness
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The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with it, complain about it, immortalize it, cry over it, kick it, defame it, stalk it, gossip about it, pray over it, put it down or dissect its motives it continues to rot in your brain. It is dead. It is over. It is gone. It is done. It is time to bury it because it is smelling up your life and no one wants to be near your rotted corpse of memories and decaying attitude. Be the funeral director of your life and bury that thing!
Topic: Funny, Happiness, Relationships
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
Topic: Happiness
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway
The Garden of Eden
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational, Life
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Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Topic: Happiness
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I've got nothing to do today but smile.
- Simon and Garfunkel
Topic: Happiness, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.
- Orhan Pamuk
Snow
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
- Leo Tolstoy
Семейное счастие
Topic: Happiness, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
- Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The resonant space of nondual therapy allows client and practitioner to remain distinct yet ultimately inseparable through their shared being. This is intimacy and compassion at the deepest level, transcending subject/object division while not denying individuality, sensations, feelings or boundaries. As Rumi expressed, 'We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.
- Laura Patryas
Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Suffering persists when we resist accepting the complementary polarities of emotions like grief and joy. Every conflict contains the seeds of its resolution. As the Hindu sage Patanjali stated in one of his Yoga Sutras, 'By experiencing the pairs of opposites, suffering ceases. When distress arises, ride opposing thoughts back into nondual awareness. By reversing instability into stability, from refusing into non-refusing, suffering is relinquished. Through disidentification, the pairs of opposites cease their noxious effect. By reversing the pairs of opposites stability and the release of suffering are quickly achieved.
- Laura Patryas
Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am reborn. This is my dawn. Real life has just begun. Deliberate living. Conscious attention to your immediate environment and its concerns. examples include: a job, a task, a book, anything requiring efficient concentration. (Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon….what it means to you).
The Great Holiness of FOOD, the Vital Heat.
Positivism, the Insurpassable Joy of the Life Aesthetic.
Absolute Truth and Honesty.
Reality.
Independence.
Finality-Stability-Consistency.
- Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Isn't life wonderful, isn't life marvelous? Everything good is happening right now all at once, every second, minute, and hour of the day!
- Virginia Toole
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is like the lunar cycle,
sometimes it is full shining,
sometimes it is half shining,
other times it goes totally dark.

The unpredictability of life
is what makes life predictable.
Sometimes it rains cats and dogs,
the next moment sunshine is unavoidable.
- Abhijit Naskar
Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead
- Neil Gaiman
American Gods
Topic: Death, Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care.
Topic: Education, Happiness, Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
A cultivated mind—I do not mean that of a philosopher, but any mind to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties—finds sources of inexhaustible interest in all that surrounds it: in the objects of nature, the achievements of art, the imaginations of poetry, the incidents of history, the ways of mankind, past and present, and their prospects in the future.
- John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
Topic: Education, Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Education, Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Let the love of the moon kiss you good night,
let the morning sun wake you up with loving light.
Topic: Education, Happiness, Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Topic: Funny, Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with it, complain about it, immortalize it, cry over it, kick it, defame it, stalk it, gossip about it, pray over it, put it down or dissect its motives it continues to rot in your brain. It is dead. It is over. It is gone. It is done. It is time to bury it because it is smelling up your life and no one wants to be near your rotted corpse of memories and decaying attitude. Be the funeral director of your life and bury that thing!
Topic: Funny, Happiness, Relationships
NOT YET RATED ▼
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway
The Garden of Eden
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I've got nothing to do today but smile.
- Simon and Garfunkel
Topic: Happiness, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.
- Orhan Pamuk
Snow
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
- Leo Tolstoy
Семейное счастие
Topic: Happiness, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
- Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The resonant space of nondual therapy allows client and practitioner to remain distinct yet ultimately inseparable through their shared being. This is intimacy and compassion at the deepest level, transcending subject/object division while not denying individuality, sensations, feelings or boundaries. As Rumi expressed, 'We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.
- Laura Patryas
Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Suffering persists when we resist accepting the complementary polarities of emotions like grief and joy. Every conflict contains the seeds of its resolution. As the Hindu sage Patanjali stated in one of his Yoga Sutras, 'By experiencing the pairs of opposites, suffering ceases. When distress arises, ride opposing thoughts back into nondual awareness. By reversing instability into stability, from refusing into non-refusing, suffering is relinquished. Through disidentification, the pairs of opposites cease their noxious effect. By reversing the pairs of opposites stability and the release of suffering are quickly achieved.
- Laura Patryas
Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am reborn. This is my dawn. Real life has just begun. Deliberate living. Conscious attention to your immediate environment and its concerns. examples include: a job, a task, a book, anything requiring efficient concentration. (Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon….what it means to you).
The Great Holiness of FOOD, the Vital Heat.
Positivism, the Insurpassable Joy of the Life Aesthetic.
Absolute Truth and Honesty.
Reality.
Independence.
Finality-Stability-Consistency.
- Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Isn't life wonderful, isn't life marvelous? Everything good is happening right now all at once, every second, minute, and hour of the day!
- Virginia Toole
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is like the lunar cycle,
sometimes it is full shining,
sometimes it is half shining,
other times it goes totally dark.

The unpredictability of life
is what makes life predictable.
Sometimes it rains cats and dogs,
the next moment sunshine is unavoidable.
- Abhijit Naskar
Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead
- Neil Gaiman
American Gods
Topic: Death, Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care.
Topic: Education, Happiness, Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
A cultivated mind—I do not mean that of a philosopher, but any mind to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties—finds sources of inexhaustible interest in all that surrounds it: in the objects of nature, the achievements of art, the imaginations of poetry, the incidents of history, the ways of mankind, past and present, and their prospects in the future.
- John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
Topic: Education, Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Education, Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Let the love of the moon kiss you good night,
let the morning sun wake you up with loving light.
Topic: Education, Happiness, Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Topic: Funny, Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with it, complain about it, immortalize it, cry over it, kick it, defame it, stalk it, gossip about it, pray over it, put it down or dissect its motives it continues to rot in your brain. It is dead. It is over. It is gone. It is done. It is time to bury it because it is smelling up your life and no one wants to be near your rotted corpse of memories and decaying attitude. Be the funeral director of your life and bury that thing!
Topic: Funny, Happiness, Relationships
NOT YET RATED ▼
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway
The Garden of Eden
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I've got nothing to do today but smile.
- Simon and Garfunkel
Topic: Happiness, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.
- Orhan Pamuk
Snow
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
- Leo Tolstoy
Семейное счастие
Topic: Happiness, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
- Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Topic: Happiness
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