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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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Our capacity for healing, health, and happiness is intricately tied to the well-being of the four dimensions of our heart: the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual.
- Jonathan Fisher
Just One Heart: A Cardiologist’s Guide to Healing, Health, and Happiness
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Without some optimal level of grit and persistence, few new businesses would ever have seen the light of day, and few New Year's resolutions would ever be kept.
- Gad Saad
The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
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Life's A Lunar Cycle (The Sonnet)

Life is like the lunar cycle,
sometimes it is full shining,
sometimes it is half shining,
other times it goes totally dark.

But one thing is certain,
no one phase lasts forever,
it all just keeps changing,
thus light is sustained
through life's brief encounter.

The unpredictability of life
is what makes life predictable.
Sometimes it rains cats and dogs,
the next moment sunshine is unavoidable.
- Abhijit Naskar
Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
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She might share them again, with Micajah or with another man, but she doesn't yearn for it. This is a contentment she's never felt before. She recognises it as happiness.
- Allegra Huston
Say My Name
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Avoiding sorrow you won't find happiness, road to happiness goes through sorrow.
- Abhijit Naskar
Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
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Going for a weekend silent retreat might be a wonderful idea. Doing so for a decade might be a terrible idea, as humans flourish in communicative sociality. Too much of anything even a good thing, can become detrimental.
- Gad Saad
The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
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Play is such a fundamental feature of the human spirit that it is used as a tool in psychotherapy, an are that typically involves an exploration of the roots of mental suffering. Hence, even in the darkest of circumstances, the desire to play manifests itself.
- Gad Saad
The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
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I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.
- David Thewlis
The Late Hector Kipling
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Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
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My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
White Nights
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It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
- Amit Ray
Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
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This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
- Susan Polis Schutz
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
- Edith Wharton
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I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything Is Illuminated
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It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
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those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
- Alex Flinn
Beastly
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But what was there to say?

Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.

Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.
- Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
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Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can't say about a single thing: 'This is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me'. Then he wonders why he's unhappy.
- Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
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There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes
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it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.
- Daisaku Ikeda
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Our capacity for healing, health, and happiness is intricately tied to the well-being of the four dimensions of our heart: the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual.
- Jonathan Fisher
Just One Heart: A Cardiologist’s Guide to Healing, Health, and Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Without some optimal level of grit and persistence, few new businesses would ever have seen the light of day, and few New Year's resolutions would ever be kept.
- Gad Saad
The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life's A Lunar Cycle (The Sonnet)

Life is like the lunar cycle,
sometimes it is full shining,
sometimes it is half shining,
other times it goes totally dark.

But one thing is certain,
no one phase lasts forever,
it all just keeps changing,
thus light is sustained
through life's brief encounter.

The unpredictability of life
is what makes life predictable.
Sometimes it rains cats and dogs,
the next moment sunshine is unavoidable.
- Abhijit Naskar
Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She might share them again, with Micajah or with another man, but she doesn't yearn for it. This is a contentment she's never felt before. She recognises it as happiness.
- Allegra Huston
Say My Name
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Avoiding sorrow you won't find happiness, road to happiness goes through sorrow.
- Abhijit Naskar
Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Going for a weekend silent retreat might be a wonderful idea. Doing so for a decade might be a terrible idea, as humans flourish in communicative sociality. Too much of anything even a good thing, can become detrimental.
- Gad Saad
The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Play is such a fundamental feature of the human spirit that it is used as a tool in psychotherapy, an are that typically involves an exploration of the roots of mental suffering. Hence, even in the darkest of circumstances, the desire to play manifests itself.
- Gad Saad
The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.
- David Thewlis
The Late Hector Kipling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
White Nights
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
- Amit Ray
Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
- Susan Polis Schutz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
- Edith Wharton
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything Is Illuminated
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
- Alex Flinn
Beastly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But what was there to say?

Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.

Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.
- Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can't say about a single thing: 'This is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me'. Then he wonders why he's unhappy.
- Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
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There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our capacity for healing, health, and happiness is intricately tied to the well-being of the four dimensions of our heart: the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual.
- Jonathan Fisher
Just One Heart: A Cardiologist’s Guide to Healing, Health, and Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Without some optimal level of grit and persistence, few new businesses would ever have seen the light of day, and few New Year's resolutions would ever be kept.
- Gad Saad
The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life's A Lunar Cycle (The Sonnet)

Life is like the lunar cycle,
sometimes it is full shining,
sometimes it is half shining,
other times it goes totally dark.

But one thing is certain,
no one phase lasts forever,
it all just keeps changing,
thus light is sustained
through life's brief encounter.

The unpredictability of life
is what makes life predictable.
Sometimes it rains cats and dogs,
the next moment sunshine is unavoidable.
- Abhijit Naskar
Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She might share them again, with Micajah or with another man, but she doesn't yearn for it. This is a contentment she's never felt before. She recognises it as happiness.
- Allegra Huston
Say My Name
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Avoiding sorrow you won't find happiness, road to happiness goes through sorrow.
- Abhijit Naskar
Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Going for a weekend silent retreat might be a wonderful idea. Doing so for a decade might be a terrible idea, as humans flourish in communicative sociality. Too much of anything even a good thing, can become detrimental.
- Gad Saad
The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Play is such a fundamental feature of the human spirit that it is used as a tool in psychotherapy, an are that typically involves an exploration of the roots of mental suffering. Hence, even in the darkest of circumstances, the desire to play manifests itself.
- Gad Saad
The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.
- David Thewlis
The Late Hector Kipling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
White Nights
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
- Amit Ray
Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
- Susan Polis Schutz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
- Edith Wharton
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything Is Illuminated
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
- Alex Flinn
Beastly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But what was there to say?

Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.

Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.
- Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can't say about a single thing: 'This is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me'. Then he wonders why he's unhappy.
- Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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