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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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I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.
- Chuang-Tzu
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies.

[An excerpt from “My friend, Abigail”]
- Huseyn Raza
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational
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It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime of pursuing happiness. It is time to let children be children again.
- L.R.Knost
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
On the Gods and Other Essays
Topic: Happiness, Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Topic: Happiness, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.
- Sarah Addison Allen
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
- Dean Koontz
Dead and Alive
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
You must remember this feeling, Jon.
The feeling of being happy. It doesn't happen often but when it does, you must grab it with both hands and hold it close. Let it overwhelm you. Don't
over analyse any emotion. But remember it. Always remember it.
- pleasefindthis
Intentional Dissonance
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?
- Orhan Pamuk
The Museum of Innocence
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts.
- Ellen DeGeneres
Seriously... I'm Kidding
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
How to win in life:
1 work hard
2 complain less
3 listen more
4 try, learn, grow
5 don't let people tell you it cant be done
6 make no excuses
Topic: Happiness, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
- Andy Rooney
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
We would do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Pessimism is not a prescription to escape the hornets’ nests of our anguish but a wrong tool to construct reliable steppingstones for the future. (''Happiness is blowing in the wind'')
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Mindful awareness lets us find peace amidst chaos and cultivate resilience that sparks happiness. Even in the barren fields of our emotions, the poppies of happiness can surprisingly grow bountifully. (Love, Happiness, and Insight)
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers.
- Jennifer E. Smith
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Are you going to allow the world around you to change while you remain stagnant? Make this the time you throw away old habits that have hindered your happiness and success and finally allow your greatest self to flourish.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Topic: Happiness, Motivational, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
When I was in Piazza di Spagna, in Rome, I watched (along with others) how many locals came to drink water from the fountain there. The people beside me said to each other "Oh my goodness, how disgusting, people just drink water from anywhere," while the whole time, I was thinking "Oh my goodness, how wonderful, people can drink water from anywhere." We can be in the exact same place, looking at the exact same thing, but see that thing in a completely different way. You can go around the world, and go to all the beautiful places, but never be happy, because happiness is something that you bring inside of you, it is not where you are or what you are looking at, but it is how you are and how you look at.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Why would he appear to be so freaking concerned about me to my fake boyfriend anyway? she thought. He needs to mind his own business and keep out of mine. Shallow, arrogant bastard!
- Sharon Carter
Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
De pronto tuve conciencia de que ese momento, de que esa rebanada de cotidianidad, era el grado máximo de bienestar, era la Dicha. Nunca había sido tan plenamente feliz como en ese momento, pero tenía la hiriente sensación de que nunca más volvería a serlo, por lo menos en ese grado, con esa intensidad
- Mario Benedetti
La tregua
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.
- Chuang-Tzu
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies.

[An excerpt from “My friend, Abigail”]
- Huseyn Raza
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime of pursuing happiness. It is time to let children be children again.
- L.R.Knost
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
On the Gods and Other Essays
Topic: Happiness, Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Topic: Happiness, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.
- Sarah Addison Allen
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
- Dean Koontz
Dead and Alive
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
You must remember this feeling, Jon.
The feeling of being happy. It doesn't happen often but when it does, you must grab it with both hands and hold it close. Let it overwhelm you. Don't
over analyse any emotion. But remember it. Always remember it.
- pleasefindthis
Intentional Dissonance
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?
- Orhan Pamuk
The Museum of Innocence
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts.
- Ellen DeGeneres
Seriously... I'm Kidding
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
How to win in life:
1 work hard
2 complain less
3 listen more
4 try, learn, grow
5 don't let people tell you it cant be done
6 make no excuses
Topic: Happiness, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
- Andy Rooney
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
We would do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Pessimism is not a prescription to escape the hornets’ nests of our anguish but a wrong tool to construct reliable steppingstones for the future. (''Happiness is blowing in the wind'')
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Mindful awareness lets us find peace amidst chaos and cultivate resilience that sparks happiness. Even in the barren fields of our emotions, the poppies of happiness can surprisingly grow bountifully. (Love, Happiness, and Insight)
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers.
- Jennifer E. Smith
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Are you going to allow the world around you to change while you remain stagnant? Make this the time you throw away old habits that have hindered your happiness and success and finally allow your greatest self to flourish.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Topic: Happiness, Motivational, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
When I was in Piazza di Spagna, in Rome, I watched (along with others) how many locals came to drink water from the fountain there. The people beside me said to each other "Oh my goodness, how disgusting, people just drink water from anywhere," while the whole time, I was thinking "Oh my goodness, how wonderful, people can drink water from anywhere." We can be in the exact same place, looking at the exact same thing, but see that thing in a completely different way. You can go around the world, and go to all the beautiful places, but never be happy, because happiness is something that you bring inside of you, it is not where you are or what you are looking at, but it is how you are and how you look at.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Why would he appear to be so freaking concerned about me to my fake boyfriend anyway? she thought. He needs to mind his own business and keep out of mine. Shallow, arrogant bastard!
- Sharon Carter
Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
De pronto tuve conciencia de que ese momento, de que esa rebanada de cotidianidad, era el grado máximo de bienestar, era la Dicha. Nunca había sido tan plenamente feliz como en ese momento, pero tenía la hiriente sensación de que nunca más volvería a serlo, por lo menos en ese grado, con esa intensidad
- Mario Benedetti
La tregua
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.
- Chuang-Tzu
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies.

[An excerpt from “My friend, Abigail”]
- Huseyn Raza
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime of pursuing happiness. It is time to let children be children again.
- L.R.Knost
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
On the Gods and Other Essays
Topic: Happiness, Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Topic: Happiness, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.
- Sarah Addison Allen
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
- Dean Koontz
Dead and Alive
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
You must remember this feeling, Jon.
The feeling of being happy. It doesn't happen often but when it does, you must grab it with both hands and hold it close. Let it overwhelm you. Don't
over analyse any emotion. But remember it. Always remember it.
- pleasefindthis
Intentional Dissonance
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?
- Orhan Pamuk
The Museum of Innocence
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts.
- Ellen DeGeneres
Seriously... I'm Kidding
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
How to win in life:
1 work hard
2 complain less
3 listen more
4 try, learn, grow
5 don't let people tell you it cant be done
6 make no excuses
Topic: Happiness, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
- Andy Rooney
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
We would do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Pessimism is not a prescription to escape the hornets’ nests of our anguish but a wrong tool to construct reliable steppingstones for the future. (''Happiness is blowing in the wind'')
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Mindful awareness lets us find peace amidst chaos and cultivate resilience that sparks happiness. Even in the barren fields of our emotions, the poppies of happiness can surprisingly grow bountifully. (Love, Happiness, and Insight)
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers.
- Jennifer E. Smith
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Are you going to allow the world around you to change while you remain stagnant? Make this the time you throw away old habits that have hindered your happiness and success and finally allow your greatest self to flourish.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Topic: Happiness, Motivational, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
When I was in Piazza di Spagna, in Rome, I watched (along with others) how many locals came to drink water from the fountain there. The people beside me said to each other "Oh my goodness, how disgusting, people just drink water from anywhere," while the whole time, I was thinking "Oh my goodness, how wonderful, people can drink water from anywhere." We can be in the exact same place, looking at the exact same thing, but see that thing in a completely different way. You can go around the world, and go to all the beautiful places, but never be happy, because happiness is something that you bring inside of you, it is not where you are or what you are looking at, but it is how you are and how you look at.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Why would he appear to be so freaking concerned about me to my fake boyfriend anyway? she thought. He needs to mind his own business and keep out of mine. Shallow, arrogant bastard!
- Sharon Carter
Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
De pronto tuve conciencia de que ese momento, de que esa rebanada de cotidianidad, era el grado máximo de bienestar, era la Dicha. Nunca había sido tan plenamente feliz como en ese momento, pero tenía la hiriente sensación de que nunca más volvería a serlo, por lo menos en ese grado, con esa intensidad
- Mario Benedetti
La tregua
Topic: Happiness
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