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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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How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Topic: Happiness
I have been poisoned in your love and now I need antidote Jacqueline.L.J! <3
- Omaid olovejlj Zazai
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Topic: Happiness
You can't build happiness on someone else's pain.
- Greg Iles
Natchez Burning
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Topic: Happiness
To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requires courage. The bridge that merges the two is commitment.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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Topic: Happiness, Motivational
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
- George Santayana
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Topic: Happiness
Mankind were intended to be happy... that government being only the means of securing freedom and happiness to the people, whenever it deviates from this end, and their freedom and happiness are in great danger of being irrevocably lost, the government is no longer entitled to their allegiance. ("The Principles of an American Whig"-1777)
- James Iredell
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Topic: Happiness
Spring buds burst to bloom, and the river carries their song of life.
- Jayita Bhattacharjee
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Topic: Happiness
Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first.
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Topic: Happiness, Relationships
XXX
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He felt gladness roar through his soul.
- Stephen King
Misery
Topic: Happiness
That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
- Sebastian Faulks
Engleby
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Topic: Happiness
Thoughts are just thoughts, and they can’t hurt you. My thoughts land in my mind like a butterfly; they stay for a while, then flutter away. The butterfly isn’t me. I can step away from it, and watch it, learn from it, enjoy it, without needing to absorb it into my identity.
- Julie Farrell
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Topic: Happiness
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Topic: Happiness
The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in him"; nothing can happen to him. The same may also be said for the contemplative person; he needs himself alone; he lacks nothing.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
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Topic: Happiness
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
- Casi McLean
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Topic: Happiness
The golden rule of business is supply and demand. I venture to say that this is also the rule of happiness. When a balance is achieved between our desires and another's willingness to satisfy them, the result is a sympathetic, mutually rewarding relationship. (...) a thriving economy of love.' - character Mike Lambeth
- Caroline Adderson
Sitting Practice
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Topic: Happiness, Relationships
It didn't stop her from pretending, though. Imagining for a moment she could have a life like Harry's. Where your world was whatever you made of it and whoever you let into it and you were allowed to be happy with that.
- Alexis Hall
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake
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Topic: Happiness
The more you overthink a problem, the larger the debt your actions have to pay.
- Vizi Andrei
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Topic: Happiness
There is a moral imperative to seeing mental health through the same lens we use for other pathologies or illnesses. Being sad or overwhelmed is normal, much as being short of breath after a run is normal. Both become abnormal when they happen with no apparent cause and are hard to stop. Those situations need medical attention.
- Matthew Goldfinger
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Topic: Happiness
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How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Berenice
Topic: Happiness
He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!
He’s stupid if he doesn’t know other people’s unhappiness is theirs,
And isn’t cured from the outside,
Because suffering isn’t like running out of ink,
Or a trunk not having iron bands!

There being injustice is like there being death.
- Alberto Caeiro
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
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Topic: Happiness
We love with all our heart, in every way that we can love but the heart is not burdened. We learn to keep it light and pliable. It has space. It breathes. It waits on Life to give instructions. It sings with sweetness when the winds are soft and warm. It stands with calm patience when the storm is brewing. It lets go when death and seeming endings have left their irrefutable mark. It moves. It heals. It hopes. It allows Life to be lived in the safe, fertile, and still inner space where it grows stronger and more compelling every day.
- Donna Goddard
Love's Longing
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Topic: Happiness
By making yourself a life-long leaner you’ll keep discovering new and exciting things about yourself and others.
- Rachel Robins
How To Feel Good About Yourself - Boost Your Confidence & Tackle Low Self Esteem. Packed with Self Improvement Techniques, Positive Thinking Tips & Inspirational Quotes
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Topic: Happiness
On the top of Cadair Idris,
I felt how happy a man might be
with a little money and a sane intellect,
and reflected with astonishment and pity
on the madness of the multitude.
- Thomas Love Peacock
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Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.
- Richard Francis Burton
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Topic: Happiness
XXX
NOT YET RATING
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How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Topic: Happiness
I have been poisoned in your love and now I need antidote Jacqueline.L.J! <3
- Omaid olovejlj Zazai
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
You can't build happiness on someone else's pain.
- Greg Iles
Natchez Burning
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requires courage. The bridge that merges the two is commitment.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness, Motivational
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
- George Santayana
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Mankind were intended to be happy... that government being only the means of securing freedom and happiness to the people, whenever it deviates from this end, and their freedom and happiness are in great danger of being irrevocably lost, the government is no longer entitled to their allegiance. ("The Principles of an American Whig"-1777)
- James Iredell
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Spring buds burst to bloom, and the river carries their song of life.
- Jayita Bhattacharjee
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness, Relationships
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
He felt gladness roar through his soul.
- Stephen King
Misery
Topic: Happiness
That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
- Sebastian Faulks
Engleby
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Thoughts are just thoughts, and they can’t hurt you. My thoughts land in my mind like a butterfly; they stay for a while, then flutter away. The butterfly isn’t me. I can step away from it, and watch it, learn from it, enjoy it, without needing to absorb it into my identity.
- Julie Farrell
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Happiness
XXX
NOT YET RATING
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Topic: Happiness
The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in him"; nothing can happen to him. The same may also be said for the contemplative person; he needs himself alone; he lacks nothing.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
- Casi McLean
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
The golden rule of business is supply and demand. I venture to say that this is also the rule of happiness. When a balance is achieved between our desires and another's willingness to satisfy them, the result is a sympathetic, mutually rewarding relationship. (...) a thriving economy of love.' - character Mike Lambeth
- Caroline Adderson
Sitting Practice
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness, Relationships
It didn't stop her from pretending, though. Imagining for a moment she could have a life like Harry's. Where your world was whatever you made of it and whoever you let into it and you were allowed to be happy with that.
- Alexis Hall
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
The more you overthink a problem, the larger the debt your actions have to pay.
- Vizi Andrei
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
There is a moral imperative to seeing mental health through the same lens we use for other pathologies or illnesses. Being sad or overwhelmed is normal, much as being short of breath after a run is normal. Both become abnormal when they happen with no apparent cause and are hard to stop. Those situations need medical attention.
- Matthew Goldfinger
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
XXX
NOT YET RATING
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How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Berenice
Topic: Happiness
He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!
He’s stupid if he doesn’t know other people’s unhappiness is theirs,
And isn’t cured from the outside,
Because suffering isn’t like running out of ink,
Or a trunk not having iron bands!

There being injustice is like there being death.
- Alberto Caeiro
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
We love with all our heart, in every way that we can love but the heart is not burdened. We learn to keep it light and pliable. It has space. It breathes. It waits on Life to give instructions. It sings with sweetness when the winds are soft and warm. It stands with calm patience when the storm is brewing. It lets go when death and seeming endings have left their irrefutable mark. It moves. It heals. It hopes. It allows Life to be lived in the safe, fertile, and still inner space where it grows stronger and more compelling every day.
- Donna Goddard
Love's Longing
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
By making yourself a life-long leaner you’ll keep discovering new and exciting things about yourself and others.
- Rachel Robins
How To Feel Good About Yourself - Boost Your Confidence & Tackle Low Self Esteem. Packed with Self Improvement Techniques, Positive Thinking Tips & Inspirational Quotes
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
On the top of Cadair Idris,
I felt how happy a man might be
with a little money and a sane intellect,
and reflected with astonishment and pity
on the madness of the multitude.
- Thomas Love Peacock
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.
- Richard Francis Burton
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Topic: Happiness
I have been poisoned in your love and now I need antidote Jacqueline.L.J! <3
- Omaid olovejlj Zazai
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
You can't build happiness on someone else's pain.
- Greg Iles
Natchez Burning
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requires courage. The bridge that merges the two is commitment.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness, Motivational
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
- George Santayana
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Mankind were intended to be happy... that government being only the means of securing freedom and happiness to the people, whenever it deviates from this end, and their freedom and happiness are in great danger of being irrevocably lost, the government is no longer entitled to their allegiance. ("The Principles of an American Whig"-1777)
- James Iredell
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Spring buds burst to bloom, and the river carries their song of life.
- Jayita Bhattacharjee
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness, Relationships
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
He felt gladness roar through his soul.
- Stephen King
Misery
Topic: Happiness
That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
- Sebastian Faulks
Engleby
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Thoughts are just thoughts, and they can’t hurt you. My thoughts land in my mind like a butterfly; they stay for a while, then flutter away. The butterfly isn’t me. I can step away from it, and watch it, learn from it, enjoy it, without needing to absorb it into my identity.
- Julie Farrell
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Topic: Happiness
The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in him"; nothing can happen to him. The same may also be said for the contemplative person; he needs himself alone; he lacks nothing.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
- Casi McLean
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
The golden rule of business is supply and demand. I venture to say that this is also the rule of happiness. When a balance is achieved between our desires and another's willingness to satisfy them, the result is a sympathetic, mutually rewarding relationship. (...) a thriving economy of love.' - character Mike Lambeth
- Caroline Adderson
Sitting Practice
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness, Relationships
It didn't stop her from pretending, though. Imagining for a moment she could have a life like Harry's. Where your world was whatever you made of it and whoever you let into it and you were allowed to be happy with that.
- Alexis Hall
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
The more you overthink a problem, the larger the debt your actions have to pay.
- Vizi Andrei
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
There is a moral imperative to seeing mental health through the same lens we use for other pathologies or illnesses. Being sad or overwhelmed is normal, much as being short of breath after a run is normal. Both become abnormal when they happen with no apparent cause and are hard to stop. Those situations need medical attention.
- Matthew Goldfinger
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Berenice
Topic: Happiness
He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!
He’s stupid if he doesn’t know other people’s unhappiness is theirs,
And isn’t cured from the outside,
Because suffering isn’t like running out of ink,
Or a trunk not having iron bands!

There being injustice is like there being death.
- Alberto Caeiro
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
We love with all our heart, in every way that we can love but the heart is not burdened. We learn to keep it light and pliable. It has space. It breathes. It waits on Life to give instructions. It sings with sweetness when the winds are soft and warm. It stands with calm patience when the storm is brewing. It lets go when death and seeming endings have left their irrefutable mark. It moves. It heals. It hopes. It allows Life to be lived in the safe, fertile, and still inner space where it grows stronger and more compelling every day.
- Donna Goddard
Love's Longing
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
By making yourself a life-long leaner you’ll keep discovering new and exciting things about yourself and others.
- Rachel Robins
How To Feel Good About Yourself - Boost Your Confidence & Tackle Low Self Esteem. Packed with Self Improvement Techniques, Positive Thinking Tips & Inspirational Quotes
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
On the top of Cadair Idris,
I felt how happy a man might be
with a little money and a sane intellect,
and reflected with astonishment and pity
on the madness of the multitude.
- Thomas Love Peacock
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.
- Richard Francis Burton
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Happiness
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