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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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In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
- Thomas Paine
Rights of Man
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Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for the health of one who is dear to you, today you fear for your own; tomorrow it will be an anxiety about money, the next day the slanders of a calumniator, the day after the misfortune of a friend; then the weather, then something broken or lost, then a pleasure for which you are reproached by your conscience or your vertebral column; another time, the course of public affairs. Not to mention heartaches. And so on. One cloud is dissipated, another gathers. Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who are lucky! As for other men, stagnant night is upon them.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
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Live happily thinking about those millions of good people god blessed you with not about the one person he took away from you. :)
There is a reason behind every decision god makes. And in the end he plans to make you anything but happy :)
- Chhavi Joshi
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The truth will set you free (The Bible)
- Robert Baohm
Real Happiness Challenge
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Human beings are incredibly slow, Cosmic Ordering is incredibly fast!
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
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There is no eleventh hour with Cosmic Ordering, only the golden hour.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering Guide
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A clever person solves a problem; a wise person uses Cosmic Ordering!
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
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No more need to rob Peter to pay Paul with Cosmic Ordering.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
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I look at the hundreds of algebra problems facing me in the next three days.
And here I thought I’d figured out the equation to my happiness.
- Elizabeth Eulberg
Take a Bow
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Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got—nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.
- Eugene O'Neill
Long Day’s Journey into Night
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Blame is the creed of the disempowered.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going.
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(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)
- Stanley Cavell
Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
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It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others.
- Mervyn Peake
The Gormenghast Trilogy
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As Tim followed me up the narrow stairwell, he playfully pinched my butt with every step, a pleasant (and painful--in a black-and-blue sort of way) reminder that all I had yearned for as a student twenty-five years before had come true, even if I hadn't taken the time to notice it until now: I was happy. At twenty years old, had I articulated what I thought I needed in life, I would have probably said a big house, a successful husband, and a great career. Yet all I really needed for true happiness was the homeless, unemployed bus driver right behind me, pinching my butt every step of the way.
- Doreen Orion
Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own
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He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the wave and the water, in those years in France I am afraid I lived a selfish life. That is, I offered myself every pleasure. I traveled a great deal. I lost some money dabbling in the theatre, but I made much more dabbling on the Bourse. I gained a great many amusing friends, some of whom are now quite famous. But I was never very happy. I suppose I was fortunate. It took me only five years to discover what some rich people never discover — that we all have a certain capacity for happiness and unhappiness. And that the economic hazards of life do not seriously affect it.
- John Fowles
The Magus
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Most people feel if they could only get enough money, then life would finally be enjoyable, but I can promise you it doesn't work that way.
- Joseph Tallal
Billionaire Cab Driver: Timeless Lessons for Financial Success
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Do not define their glow without knowing their gloom: Don’t try to define their glow if you’ve never dwelt in their gloom. Never judge the brilliance they carry without first knowing the darkness they had to endure.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
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Character is power; it is the invisible force that commands respect and shapes destiny. Without character, power is fleeting; with character, power is eternal.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
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The one who steadies emotions often steadies life itself.

(Let Go — Cool — Return)
- Bea Roubo
Joy Is the Key and You Are the Door
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With the light coming, she leaned into him, and in that moment, everything they were was there before them—visible, as if marked as one by the stain of this life.
- Christian Fennell
What I Know About the Human Race: A Collection of Writing
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Happiness came from spending time with people, and more non-Americans seemed to think that spending a few hours watching TV with the kids on the couch was something to celebrate and enjoy, rather than feel guilty about.
- Jenny Lawson
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
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Happiness comes with a price.
- Adrian C. Louis
Bone & Juice
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What’s plan B?” "I don’t know sir I’m still working on plan A.
- Robert Agnello
The Glimmers Save Christmas
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In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
- Thomas Paine
Rights of Man
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for the health of one who is dear to you, today you fear for your own; tomorrow it will be an anxiety about money, the next day the slanders of a calumniator, the day after the misfortune of a friend; then the weather, then something broken or lost, then a pleasure for which you are reproached by your conscience or your vertebral column; another time, the course of public affairs. Not to mention heartaches. And so on. One cloud is dissipated, another gathers. Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who are lucky! As for other men, stagnant night is upon them.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Live happily thinking about those millions of good people god blessed you with not about the one person he took away from you. :)
There is a reason behind every decision god makes. And in the end he plans to make you anything but happy :)
- Chhavi Joshi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The truth will set you free (The Bible)
- Robert Baohm
Real Happiness Challenge
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Human beings are incredibly slow, Cosmic Ordering is incredibly fast!
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no eleventh hour with Cosmic Ordering, only the golden hour.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering Guide
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A clever person solves a problem; a wise person uses Cosmic Ordering!
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No more need to rob Peter to pay Paul with Cosmic Ordering.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I look at the hundreds of algebra problems facing me in the next three days.
And here I thought I’d figured out the equation to my happiness.
- Elizabeth Eulberg
Take a Bow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got—nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.
- Eugene O'Neill
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Blame is the creed of the disempowered.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)
- Stanley Cavell
Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others.
- Mervyn Peake
The Gormenghast Trilogy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As Tim followed me up the narrow stairwell, he playfully pinched my butt with every step, a pleasant (and painful--in a black-and-blue sort of way) reminder that all I had yearned for as a student twenty-five years before had come true, even if I hadn't taken the time to notice it until now: I was happy. At twenty years old, had I articulated what I thought I needed in life, I would have probably said a big house, a successful husband, and a great career. Yet all I really needed for true happiness was the homeless, unemployed bus driver right behind me, pinching my butt every step of the way.
- Doreen Orion
Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the wave and the water, in those years in France I am afraid I lived a selfish life. That is, I offered myself every pleasure. I traveled a great deal. I lost some money dabbling in the theatre, but I made much more dabbling on the Bourse. I gained a great many amusing friends, some of whom are now quite famous. But I was never very happy. I suppose I was fortunate. It took me only five years to discover what some rich people never discover — that we all have a certain capacity for happiness and unhappiness. And that the economic hazards of life do not seriously affect it.
- John Fowles
The Magus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most people feel if they could only get enough money, then life would finally be enjoyable, but I can promise you it doesn't work that way.
- Joseph Tallal
Billionaire Cab Driver: Timeless Lessons for Financial Success
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do not define their glow without knowing their gloom: Don’t try to define their glow if you’ve never dwelt in their gloom. Never judge the brilliance they carry without first knowing the darkness they had to endure.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Character is power; it is the invisible force that commands respect and shapes destiny. Without character, power is fleeting; with character, power is eternal.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The one who steadies emotions often steadies life itself.

(Let Go — Cool — Return)
- Bea Roubo
Joy Is the Key and You Are the Door
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
With the light coming, she leaned into him, and in that moment, everything they were was there before them—visible, as if marked as one by the stain of this life.
- Christian Fennell
What I Know About the Human Race: A Collection of Writing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness came from spending time with people, and more non-Americans seemed to think that spending a few hours watching TV with the kids on the couch was something to celebrate and enjoy, rather than feel guilty about.
- Jenny Lawson
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness comes with a price.
- Adrian C. Louis
Bone & Juice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What’s plan B?” "I don’t know sir I’m still working on plan A.
- Robert Agnello
The Glimmers Save Christmas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
- Thomas Paine
Rights of Man
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for the health of one who is dear to you, today you fear for your own; tomorrow it will be an anxiety about money, the next day the slanders of a calumniator, the day after the misfortune of a friend; then the weather, then something broken or lost, then a pleasure for which you are reproached by your conscience or your vertebral column; another time, the course of public affairs. Not to mention heartaches. And so on. One cloud is dissipated, another gathers. Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who are lucky! As for other men, stagnant night is upon them.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Live happily thinking about those millions of good people god blessed you with not about the one person he took away from you. :)
There is a reason behind every decision god makes. And in the end he plans to make you anything but happy :)
- Chhavi Joshi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The truth will set you free (The Bible)
- Robert Baohm
Real Happiness Challenge
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Human beings are incredibly slow, Cosmic Ordering is incredibly fast!
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no eleventh hour with Cosmic Ordering, only the golden hour.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering Guide
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A clever person solves a problem; a wise person uses Cosmic Ordering!
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No more need to rob Peter to pay Paul with Cosmic Ordering.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I look at the hundreds of algebra problems facing me in the next three days.
And here I thought I’d figured out the equation to my happiness.
- Elizabeth Eulberg
Take a Bow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got—nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.
- Eugene O'Neill
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Blame is the creed of the disempowered.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)
- Stanley Cavell
Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others.
- Mervyn Peake
The Gormenghast Trilogy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As Tim followed me up the narrow stairwell, he playfully pinched my butt with every step, a pleasant (and painful--in a black-and-blue sort of way) reminder that all I had yearned for as a student twenty-five years before had come true, even if I hadn't taken the time to notice it until now: I was happy. At twenty years old, had I articulated what I thought I needed in life, I would have probably said a big house, a successful husband, and a great career. Yet all I really needed for true happiness was the homeless, unemployed bus driver right behind me, pinching my butt every step of the way.
- Doreen Orion
Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the wave and the water, in those years in France I am afraid I lived a selfish life. That is, I offered myself every pleasure. I traveled a great deal. I lost some money dabbling in the theatre, but I made much more dabbling on the Bourse. I gained a great many amusing friends, some of whom are now quite famous. But I was never very happy. I suppose I was fortunate. It took me only five years to discover what some rich people never discover — that we all have a certain capacity for happiness and unhappiness. And that the economic hazards of life do not seriously affect it.
- John Fowles
The Magus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most people feel if they could only get enough money, then life would finally be enjoyable, but I can promise you it doesn't work that way.
- Joseph Tallal
Billionaire Cab Driver: Timeless Lessons for Financial Success
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do not define their glow without knowing their gloom: Don’t try to define their glow if you’ve never dwelt in their gloom. Never judge the brilliance they carry without first knowing the darkness they had to endure.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Character is power; it is the invisible force that commands respect and shapes destiny. Without character, power is fleeting; with character, power is eternal.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The one who steadies emotions often steadies life itself.

(Let Go — Cool — Return)
- Bea Roubo
Joy Is the Key and You Are the Door
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
With the light coming, she leaned into him, and in that moment, everything they were was there before them—visible, as if marked as one by the stain of this life.
- Christian Fennell
What I Know About the Human Race: A Collection of Writing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness came from spending time with people, and more non-Americans seemed to think that spending a few hours watching TV with the kids on the couch was something to celebrate and enjoy, rather than feel guilty about.
- Jenny Lawson
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness comes with a price.
- Adrian C. Louis
Bone & Juice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What’s plan B?” "I don’t know sir I’m still working on plan A.
- Robert Agnello
The Glimmers Save Christmas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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