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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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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
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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
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I shall take the heart. [...] For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
- L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
- William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!
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They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.
- David Rovics
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Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.
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Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
- David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
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Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.
- Peter Deunov
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Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.
- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
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A pornographic scene skilfully shot is no less than a melodious song.
- Rebecca Harlem
The Pink Cadillac
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An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...
- Michel Houellebecq
Whatever
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
- Pearl S. Buck
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When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.
- Nicholas Sparks
The Lucky One
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To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
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Happy the man, and happy he alone,
he who can call today his own:
he who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
- Horace
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Let us dare to dream and shoot for the moon. Even if we don’t fetch the moon, a million stars may fill us with wonder. ("Happiness blowing in the wind")
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Sunlight shines beauty aglow, by the banks of the river that quietly flow. Misty rain yields comfort to a muggy night. Wind of a gentle breeze, calming the skies destine of rendering light.
- Sherman Kennon
Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
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The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.
- Daisaku Ikeda
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Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
- Saul Bellow
Ravelstein
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I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air. or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.
- Willa Cather
My Antonia
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When the sense of «not belonging» is tolling the bell for true happiness, it infuses people into accepting life as a failure, or a scar in the canvas of a vacant environment. The attachment to the little things, though, and the fleeting moments of every day can confer connection and expectation. ("The grass was greener over there")
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People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.
- Edward St. Aubyn
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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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I shall take the heart. [...] For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
- L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
- William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.
- David Rovics
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
- David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
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Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.
- Peter Deunov
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.
- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A pornographic scene skilfully shot is no less than a melodious song.
- Rebecca Harlem
The Pink Cadillac
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...
- Michel Houellebecq
Whatever
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
- Pearl S. Buck
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.
- Nicholas Sparks
The Lucky One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
he who can call today his own:
he who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
- Horace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let us dare to dream and shoot for the moon. Even if we don’t fetch the moon, a million stars may fill us with wonder. ("Happiness blowing in the wind")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sunlight shines beauty aglow, by the banks of the river that quietly flow. Misty rain yields comfort to a muggy night. Wind of a gentle breeze, calming the skies destine of rendering light.
- Sherman Kennon
Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
- Saul Bellow
Ravelstein
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air. or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.
- Willa Cather
My Antonia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When the sense of «not belonging» is tolling the bell for true happiness, it infuses people into accepting life as a failure, or a scar in the canvas of a vacant environment. The attachment to the little things, though, and the fleeting moments of every day can confer connection and expectation. ("The grass was greener over there")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.
- Edward St. Aubyn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I shall take the heart. [...] For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
- L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
- William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.
- David Rovics
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
- David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.
- Peter Deunov
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.
- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A pornographic scene skilfully shot is no less than a melodious song.
- Rebecca Harlem
The Pink Cadillac
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...
- Michel Houellebecq
Whatever
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
- Pearl S. Buck
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.
- Nicholas Sparks
The Lucky One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
he who can call today his own:
he who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
- Horace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let us dare to dream and shoot for the moon. Even if we don’t fetch the moon, a million stars may fill us with wonder. ("Happiness blowing in the wind")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sunlight shines beauty aglow, by the banks of the river that quietly flow. Misty rain yields comfort to a muggy night. Wind of a gentle breeze, calming the skies destine of rendering light.
- Sherman Kennon
Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
- Saul Bellow
Ravelstein
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air. or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.
- Willa Cather
My Antonia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When the sense of «not belonging» is tolling the bell for true happiness, it infuses people into accepting life as a failure, or a scar in the canvas of a vacant environment. The attachment to the little things, though, and the fleeting moments of every day can confer connection and expectation. ("The grass was greener over there")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.
- Edward St. Aubyn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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