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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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Before you smile to others smile to your self a
happy you is the beginning of happiness
- Teddy Kelemwork
Ted's Motivation: 21 Years of Personal Inspiration
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Topic: Happiness
You’re not doing this for smiles, Swann, he told himself. You don’t want his smiles. But still he found he was grinning helplessly back
- K.J. Charles
Wanted, A Gentleman
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Topic: Happiness
Peace lies in the absence of the desire and need for peace.
- Sov8840
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She is flooded with heat and warmth, alive with a pleasure both utterly familiar but completely new. She wants to weep with happiness, and to laugh with the uncomplicated joy of life. If she has ever felt happier, she cannot immediately bring it to mind. If the angels were to carry her away this very moment--and if her heart rate was anything to go by that was a possibility--she would have let them scoop her up, while she thanked the heavens for a life well lived.
"How was it?" asks Bogdan, his hand stroking her hair.
"It was OK," says Donna. "For a first time.
- Richard Osman
The Bullet That Missed
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Topic: Happiness
Fill your cup and make yourself happy so you can exude joy into the world. Everyone likes to be around happy people, so intentionally do things that light you up. Permit yourself to be the brightest, most radiant version of yourself without apology.
- Lillian So
So Empowered: Discover the Five Layers of the Body To Take Control of Your Life
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Topic: Happiness
We don’t need a better life plan. We need a better understanding of what actually makes us feel alive.
- Karien Van Zyl
What will make us Happy?
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Topic: Happiness
When the dark stops hating the light and the light stops hating the dark, then we can play in shades of gray. Then we have space.
- Erin Currin
Hate Your Way to Happiness: Cultivating self-love even when you feel like sh!t
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Topic: Happiness
Girl...
Lemme just go ‘head and let life be good.
Let life show me how safe it is to
bask in happiness,
shine in who I am,
bathe in long laughter with friends
and, give the present a real good look.
Nah, I’m playin’

I choose life to be good.
I choose to laze about in happiness with my house shoes on,
shine in the me I know best,
Breathe slowly in tear-eyed cackles
while knowing the present is a safe spot
to rub my feet together in.

Pfft, let.
- Jasmine Farrell
Rising From The Roots
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Topic: Happiness
As a species, we don't really seem cut out for happiness. So if I had to guess...I'd say that we were put on Earth to grow. To discover ourselves. To find the lives that fit us. Or, if not...then to at least find some people with whom we can enjoy the lack of answers.
- Mark Russell
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Topic: Happiness
What is it about people getting all philosophical, instead of just getting on with the basics of being happy?
- Mike Gayle
The One That Got Away
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Topic: Happiness
I am interested in human happiness, sir, in the better understanding of what it is and how it may be achieved. I wish to explore whether it is a state which arises from the chance convergence of circumstances, or whether it is a condition we may will ourselves to possess. I want to understand how we may recognise it when it is within our grasp and in what ways we can learn to live without it if we are not lucky enough to experience it.
- Janice Hadlow
The Other Bennet Sister
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Topic: Happiness
MASHA:
Happy is he who doesn’t notice whether it's winter or summer. If I were in Moscow, I think I wouldn’t mind about the weather.

VERSHININ:
Just recently I read the prison memoirs of a French minister — he was imprisoned over the Panama affair. He describes with such ecstasy the little birds he could see through the prison window, which he had never noticed before when he was a minister. Now that he is free again, he notices them no more. And so it will be with you when you live in Moscow — you won’t notice it. There is no happiness, nor should there be; we can only long for it.
- Anton Chekhov
The Three Sisters
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Topic: Happiness
Succeed and give, and it helps you live; But no man can help you die.
- Sukhraj S. Dhillon
Health, Happiness, & Longevity: Eastern and Western Approach
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Topic: Happiness
Funny," Will said, as they picked their way through. "Things are absolutely awful, and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all. Bubbling."

"They are English," Merriman said.

"Quite right," said Will's father. "Splendid in adversity, tedious when safe. Never content, in fact. We're an odd lot.
- Susan Cooper
The Dark Is Rising
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Topic: Happiness
Effectively managing those day to day moments of unhappiness without losing balance is Happiness...
- Ramesh Sood
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Topic: Happiness
We should deal with children as God deals with us, we are happiest under the influence of innocent delusions.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
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Topic: Happiness
If we can learn tolerance with understanding, our responses will be through non-violence.
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Topic: Happiness
heartache is not just pain
it's learning to live with the empty spaces
and maybe one day this ache will soften
into a memory that no longer hurts.
- Andrea E. Davis
Prisoner
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Topic: Happiness
Once the past has passed, the present presents presents. Tomorrow brings smiled
- C.T. Tang
Shadows in the Dark
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Topic: Happiness, Hope
Once the past has passed, the present presents presents. Tomorrow brings smiles
- C.T. Tang
Nothing in the Void
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Topic: Happiness
Social media itself is a metaphor for people who chase the algorithms set up by society in a desperate search for power, happiness, meaning, and social and financial success. Every social media platform has been a progressively worse social experiment. This is because they were all built according to the existing coercive models we were already living under. None of them has been designed to remedy the problems we had before.
- Heather Marsh
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Topic: Happiness, Success
Be happy, don’t tell anyone. Go places, don’t tell anyone. Experience life, don’t tell anyone. Pamper the inner child, don’t tell anyone. It’s a sad society, the news of your happiness stirs up only jealousy. Your happiness doesn’t need anybody’s stamp of approval. What the jungle cannot see, the jungle cannot destroy.
- Abhijit Naskar
Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Happiness
The prestige carried by people in modern industrial society varies in inverse proportion to their closeness to actual production.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Happiness
A man is destroyed by the inner conviction of uselessness. No amount of economic growth can compensate for such losses.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Before you smile to others smile to your self a
happy you is the beginning of happiness
- Teddy Kelemwork
Ted's Motivation: 21 Years of Personal Inspiration
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
You’re not doing this for smiles, Swann, he told himself. You don’t want his smiles. But still he found he was grinning helplessly back
- K.J. Charles
Wanted, A Gentleman
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Peace lies in the absence of the desire and need for peace.
- Sov8840
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
She is flooded with heat and warmth, alive with a pleasure both utterly familiar but completely new. She wants to weep with happiness, and to laugh with the uncomplicated joy of life. If she has ever felt happier, she cannot immediately bring it to mind. If the angels were to carry her away this very moment--and if her heart rate was anything to go by that was a possibility--she would have let them scoop her up, while she thanked the heavens for a life well lived.
"How was it?" asks Bogdan, his hand stroking her hair.
"It was OK," says Donna. "For a first time.
- Richard Osman
The Bullet That Missed
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Fill your cup and make yourself happy so you can exude joy into the world. Everyone likes to be around happy people, so intentionally do things that light you up. Permit yourself to be the brightest, most radiant version of yourself without apology.
- Lillian So
So Empowered: Discover the Five Layers of the Body To Take Control of Your Life
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
We don’t need a better life plan. We need a better understanding of what actually makes us feel alive.
- Karien Van Zyl
What will make us Happy?
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
When the dark stops hating the light and the light stops hating the dark, then we can play in shades of gray. Then we have space.
- Erin Currin
Hate Your Way to Happiness: Cultivating self-love even when you feel like sh!t
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Girl...
Lemme just go ‘head and let life be good.
Let life show me how safe it is to
bask in happiness,
shine in who I am,
bathe in long laughter with friends
and, give the present a real good look.
Nah, I’m playin’

I choose life to be good.
I choose to laze about in happiness with my house shoes on,
shine in the me I know best,
Breathe slowly in tear-eyed cackles
while knowing the present is a safe spot
to rub my feet together in.

Pfft, let.
- Jasmine Farrell
Rising From The Roots
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
As a species, we don't really seem cut out for happiness. So if I had to guess...I'd say that we were put on Earth to grow. To discover ourselves. To find the lives that fit us. Or, if not...then to at least find some people with whom we can enjoy the lack of answers.
- Mark Russell
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
What is it about people getting all philosophical, instead of just getting on with the basics of being happy?
- Mike Gayle
The One That Got Away
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
I am interested in human happiness, sir, in the better understanding of what it is and how it may be achieved. I wish to explore whether it is a state which arises from the chance convergence of circumstances, or whether it is a condition we may will ourselves to possess. I want to understand how we may recognise it when it is within our grasp and in what ways we can learn to live without it if we are not lucky enough to experience it.
- Janice Hadlow
The Other Bennet Sister
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
MASHA:
Happy is he who doesn’t notice whether it's winter or summer. If I were in Moscow, I think I wouldn’t mind about the weather.

VERSHININ:
Just recently I read the prison memoirs of a French minister — he was imprisoned over the Panama affair. He describes with such ecstasy the little birds he could see through the prison window, which he had never noticed before when he was a minister. Now that he is free again, he notices them no more. And so it will be with you when you live in Moscow — you won’t notice it. There is no happiness, nor should there be; we can only long for it.
- Anton Chekhov
The Three Sisters
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Succeed and give, and it helps you live; But no man can help you die.
- Sukhraj S. Dhillon
Health, Happiness, & Longevity: Eastern and Western Approach
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Funny," Will said, as they picked their way through. "Things are absolutely awful, and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all. Bubbling."

"They are English," Merriman said.

"Quite right," said Will's father. "Splendid in adversity, tedious when safe. Never content, in fact. We're an odd lot.
- Susan Cooper
The Dark Is Rising
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Effectively managing those day to day moments of unhappiness without losing balance is Happiness...
- Ramesh Sood
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
We should deal with children as God deals with us, we are happiest under the influence of innocent delusions.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
If we can learn tolerance with understanding, our responses will be through non-violence.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
heartache is not just pain
it's learning to live with the empty spaces
and maybe one day this ache will soften
into a memory that no longer hurts.
- Andrea E. Davis
Prisoner
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Once the past has passed, the present presents presents. Tomorrow brings smiled
- C.T. Tang
Shadows in the Dark
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness, Hope
Once the past has passed, the present presents presents. Tomorrow brings smiles
- C.T. Tang
Nothing in the Void
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Social media itself is a metaphor for people who chase the algorithms set up by society in a desperate search for power, happiness, meaning, and social and financial success. Every social media platform has been a progressively worse social experiment. This is because they were all built according to the existing coercive models we were already living under. None of them has been designed to remedy the problems we had before.
- Heather Marsh
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness, Success
Be happy, don’t tell anyone. Go places, don’t tell anyone. Experience life, don’t tell anyone. Pamper the inner child, don’t tell anyone. It’s a sad society, the news of your happiness stirs up only jealousy. Your happiness doesn’t need anybody’s stamp of approval. What the jungle cannot see, the jungle cannot destroy.
- Abhijit Naskar
Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
The prestige carried by people in modern industrial society varies in inverse proportion to their closeness to actual production.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
A man is destroyed by the inner conviction of uselessness. No amount of economic growth can compensate for such losses.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Before you smile to others smile to your self a
happy you is the beginning of happiness
- Teddy Kelemwork
Ted's Motivation: 21 Years of Personal Inspiration
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
You’re not doing this for smiles, Swann, he told himself. You don’t want his smiles. But still he found he was grinning helplessly back
- K.J. Charles
Wanted, A Gentleman
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Peace lies in the absence of the desire and need for peace.
- Sov8840
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
She is flooded with heat and warmth, alive with a pleasure both utterly familiar but completely new. She wants to weep with happiness, and to laugh with the uncomplicated joy of life. If she has ever felt happier, she cannot immediately bring it to mind. If the angels were to carry her away this very moment--and if her heart rate was anything to go by that was a possibility--she would have let them scoop her up, while she thanked the heavens for a life well lived.
"How was it?" asks Bogdan, his hand stroking her hair.
"It was OK," says Donna. "For a first time.
- Richard Osman
The Bullet That Missed
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Fill your cup and make yourself happy so you can exude joy into the world. Everyone likes to be around happy people, so intentionally do things that light you up. Permit yourself to be the brightest, most radiant version of yourself without apology.
- Lillian So
So Empowered: Discover the Five Layers of the Body To Take Control of Your Life
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
We don’t need a better life plan. We need a better understanding of what actually makes us feel alive.
- Karien Van Zyl
What will make us Happy?
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
When the dark stops hating the light and the light stops hating the dark, then we can play in shades of gray. Then we have space.
- Erin Currin
Hate Your Way to Happiness: Cultivating self-love even when you feel like sh!t
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Girl...
Lemme just go ‘head and let life be good.
Let life show me how safe it is to
bask in happiness,
shine in who I am,
bathe in long laughter with friends
and, give the present a real good look.
Nah, I’m playin’

I choose life to be good.
I choose to laze about in happiness with my house shoes on,
shine in the me I know best,
Breathe slowly in tear-eyed cackles
while knowing the present is a safe spot
to rub my feet together in.

Pfft, let.
- Jasmine Farrell
Rising From The Roots
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
As a species, we don't really seem cut out for happiness. So if I had to guess...I'd say that we were put on Earth to grow. To discover ourselves. To find the lives that fit us. Or, if not...then to at least find some people with whom we can enjoy the lack of answers.
- Mark Russell
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
What is it about people getting all philosophical, instead of just getting on with the basics of being happy?
- Mike Gayle
The One That Got Away
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
I am interested in human happiness, sir, in the better understanding of what it is and how it may be achieved. I wish to explore whether it is a state which arises from the chance convergence of circumstances, or whether it is a condition we may will ourselves to possess. I want to understand how we may recognise it when it is within our grasp and in what ways we can learn to live without it if we are not lucky enough to experience it.
- Janice Hadlow
The Other Bennet Sister
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
MASHA:
Happy is he who doesn’t notice whether it's winter or summer. If I were in Moscow, I think I wouldn’t mind about the weather.

VERSHININ:
Just recently I read the prison memoirs of a French minister — he was imprisoned over the Panama affair. He describes with such ecstasy the little birds he could see through the prison window, which he had never noticed before when he was a minister. Now that he is free again, he notices them no more. And so it will be with you when you live in Moscow — you won’t notice it. There is no happiness, nor should there be; we can only long for it.
- Anton Chekhov
The Three Sisters
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Succeed and give, and it helps you live; But no man can help you die.
- Sukhraj S. Dhillon
Health, Happiness, & Longevity: Eastern and Western Approach
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Funny," Will said, as they picked their way through. "Things are absolutely awful, and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all. Bubbling."

"They are English," Merriman said.

"Quite right," said Will's father. "Splendid in adversity, tedious when safe. Never content, in fact. We're an odd lot.
- Susan Cooper
The Dark Is Rising
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Effectively managing those day to day moments of unhappiness without losing balance is Happiness...
- Ramesh Sood
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
We should deal with children as God deals with us, we are happiest under the influence of innocent delusions.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
If we can learn tolerance with understanding, our responses will be through non-violence.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
heartache is not just pain
it's learning to live with the empty spaces
and maybe one day this ache will soften
into a memory that no longer hurts.
- Andrea E. Davis
Prisoner
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Once the past has passed, the present presents presents. Tomorrow brings smiled
- C.T. Tang
Shadows in the Dark
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness, Hope
Once the past has passed, the present presents presents. Tomorrow brings smiles
- C.T. Tang
Nothing in the Void
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
Social media itself is a metaphor for people who chase the algorithms set up by society in a desperate search for power, happiness, meaning, and social and financial success. Every social media platform has been a progressively worse social experiment. This is because they were all built according to the existing coercive models we were already living under. None of them has been designed to remedy the problems we had before.
- Heather Marsh
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness, Success
Be happy, don’t tell anyone. Go places, don’t tell anyone. Experience life, don’t tell anyone. Pamper the inner child, don’t tell anyone. It’s a sad society, the news of your happiness stirs up only jealousy. Your happiness doesn’t need anybody’s stamp of approval. What the jungle cannot see, the jungle cannot destroy.
- Abhijit Naskar
Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
The prestige carried by people in modern industrial society varies in inverse proportion to their closeness to actual production.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
A man is destroyed by the inner conviction of uselessness. No amount of economic growth can compensate for such losses.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
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115
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