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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 secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.
- Carrie Jones
Need
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational
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The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.
- Graham Greene
The End of the Affair
Topic: Happiness
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The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Topic: Happiness, Success
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And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
- Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Topic: Happiness, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
- Ayn Rand
Anthem
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
- Joanne Harris
Chocolat
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happy girls are the prettiest
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
- Stendhal
Love
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
Topic: Happiness, Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
- Mary Tyler Moore
Topic: Happiness, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Complete Stories and Poems
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Memory is the happiness of being alone.
- Lois Lowry
Anastasia Krupnick
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!
Topic: Happiness, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.
- Robin Williams
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
- Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.
- T.H. White
Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
- Ellen Hopkins
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.
- Carrie Jones
Need
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.
- Graham Greene
The End of the Affair
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Topic: Happiness, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
- Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Topic: Happiness, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
- Ayn Rand
Anthem
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
- Joanne Harris
Chocolat
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happy girls are the prettiest
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
- Stendhal
Love
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
Topic: Happiness, Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
- Mary Tyler Moore
Topic: Happiness, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Complete Stories and Poems
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Memory is the happiness of being alone.
- Lois Lowry
Anastasia Krupnick
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!
Topic: Happiness, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.
- Robin Williams
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
- Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.
- T.H. White
Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
- Ellen Hopkins
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.
- Carrie Jones
Need
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.
- Graham Greene
The End of the Affair
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Topic: Happiness, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
- Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Topic: Happiness, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
- Ayn Rand
Anthem
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
- Joanne Harris
Chocolat
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happy girls are the prettiest
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
- Stendhal
Love
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
Topic: Happiness, Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
- Mary Tyler Moore
Topic: Happiness, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Complete Stories and Poems
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Memory is the happiness of being alone.
- Lois Lowry
Anastasia Krupnick
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!
Topic: Happiness, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.
- Robin Williams
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
- Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.
- T.H. White
Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
- Ellen Hopkins
Topic: Happiness
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