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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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A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead singer who had locked himself in the bathroom with a bottle of pills and was refusing to come out till it could be proved conclusively to him that he wasn't a fish. The bass player was busy machine-gunning his bedroom and the drummer was nowhere on board.

Frantic inquiries led to the discovery that he was standing on a beach on Santraginus V over a hundred light years away where, he claimed, he had been happy for over half an hour now and had found a small stone that would be his friend.
- Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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I will never accept life for what it is. I don't need an easy life. My road was meant to be hard because anything worth having in this world will take me to the very edge of myself. I will overcome everything I have ever gone through and will make my future the one God intended me to have. I will pick up the pieces of this pain and sculpt it into art. I am not ordinary and never was. I walk into my birthright as a queen with her head held high. I was born to do this!
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Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain-killing chemicals, improves the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to internal organs.
Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases!
- Patch Adams
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Good morning, Hell-A. In the land of the lotus-eaters, time plays tricks on you. One day you’re dreaming, the next, your dream has become your reality. It was the best of times. If only someone had told me. Mistakes were made, hearts were broken, harsh lessons learned. My family goes on without me, while I drown in a sea of pointless pussy. I don’t know how I got here. But here I am, rotting away in the warm California sun. There are things I need to figure out, for her sake, at least. The clock is ticking. The gap is widening. She won’t always love me “no matter what
- Hank Moody
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When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with us or do not understand, but freedom from pain in the body and from trouble in the mind. For it is not continuous drinkings and revelings, nor the satisfaction of lusts, nor the enjoyment of fish and other luxuries of the wealthy table, which produce a pleasant life, but sober reasoning, searching out the motives for all choice and avoidance, and banishing mere opinions, to which are due the greatest disturbance of the spirit.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
- Napoleon Hill
Think and Grow Rich
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Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind.
- Pablo
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Life is complicated. If life was simple, wouldn’t that make us simpletons?
- C. Toni Graham
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Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
- Eric Weiner
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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and we laugh and laugh and
all I know is
at this moment I feel like
I can do anything I want
and be anyone I want
and go anywhere on the globe
and still call it home
- Kirsten Smith
The Geography of Girlhood
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my child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one.
- Carlos Barrios
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A life of happiness, peace, and love is all within our grasp.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —
In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.
- Alberto Caeiro
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
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May your day be filled with joy with a sprinkling of positivity on top.
- C. Toni Graham
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Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.
- Kij Johnson
The Fox Woman
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Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone.
- David O. McKay
Pathways to Happiness
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We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work that’s finished is at least finished. It may be poor, but it exists, like the miserable plant in the lone flowerpot of my neighbour who’s crippled. That plant is her happiness, and sometimes it’s even mine. What I write, bad as it is, may provide some hurt or sad soul a few moments of distraction from something worse. That’s enough for me, or it isn’t enough, but it serves some purpose, and so it is with all of life.
- Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Disquiet
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To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
- George Santayana
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People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.
- Todd Stocker
Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose
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I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness… the door is open and unlocked… just walk through it.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion.
- Tony Hsieh
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
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Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist."

"Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad."

"That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.
- Lee Goldberg
Mr. Monk on the Couch
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A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead singer who had locked himself in the bathroom with a bottle of pills and was refusing to come out till it could be proved conclusively to him that he wasn't a fish. The bass player was busy machine-gunning his bedroom and the drummer was nowhere on board.

Frantic inquiries led to the discovery that he was standing on a beach on Santraginus V over a hundred light years away where, he claimed, he had been happy for over half an hour now and had found a small stone that would be his friend.
- Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I will never accept life for what it is. I don't need an easy life. My road was meant to be hard because anything worth having in this world will take me to the very edge of myself. I will overcome everything I have ever gone through and will make my future the one God intended me to have. I will pick up the pieces of this pain and sculpt it into art. I am not ordinary and never was. I walk into my birthright as a queen with her head held high. I was born to do this!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain-killing chemicals, improves the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to internal organs.
Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases!
- Patch Adams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Good morning, Hell-A. In the land of the lotus-eaters, time plays tricks on you. One day you’re dreaming, the next, your dream has become your reality. It was the best of times. If only someone had told me. Mistakes were made, hearts were broken, harsh lessons learned. My family goes on without me, while I drown in a sea of pointless pussy. I don’t know how I got here. But here I am, rotting away in the warm California sun. There are things I need to figure out, for her sake, at least. The clock is ticking. The gap is widening. She won’t always love me “no matter what
- Hank Moody
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When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with us or do not understand, but freedom from pain in the body and from trouble in the mind. For it is not continuous drinkings and revelings, nor the satisfaction of lusts, nor the enjoyment of fish and other luxuries of the wealthy table, which produce a pleasant life, but sober reasoning, searching out the motives for all choice and avoidance, and banishing mere opinions, to which are due the greatest disturbance of the spirit.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
- Napoleon Hill
Think and Grow Rich
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind.
- Pablo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is complicated. If life was simple, wouldn’t that make us simpletons?
- C. Toni Graham
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
- Eric Weiner
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
and we laugh and laugh and
all I know is
at this moment I feel like
I can do anything I want
and be anyone I want
and go anywhere on the globe
and still call it home
- Kirsten Smith
The Geography of Girlhood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
my child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one.
- Carlos Barrios
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A life of happiness, peace, and love is all within our grasp.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —
In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.
- Alberto Caeiro
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
May your day be filled with joy with a sprinkling of positivity on top.
- C. Toni Graham
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.
- Kij Johnson
The Fox Woman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone.
- David O. McKay
Pathways to Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work that’s finished is at least finished. It may be poor, but it exists, like the miserable plant in the lone flowerpot of my neighbour who’s crippled. That plant is her happiness, and sometimes it’s even mine. What I write, bad as it is, may provide some hurt or sad soul a few moments of distraction from something worse. That’s enough for me, or it isn’t enough, but it serves some purpose, and so it is with all of life.
- Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Disquiet
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To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
- George Santayana
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.
- Todd Stocker
Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness… the door is open and unlocked… just walk through it.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion.
- Tony Hsieh
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist."

"Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad."

"That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.
- Lee Goldberg
Mr. Monk on the Couch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead singer who had locked himself in the bathroom with a bottle of pills and was refusing to come out till it could be proved conclusively to him that he wasn't a fish. The bass player was busy machine-gunning his bedroom and the drummer was nowhere on board.

Frantic inquiries led to the discovery that he was standing on a beach on Santraginus V over a hundred light years away where, he claimed, he had been happy for over half an hour now and had found a small stone that would be his friend.
- Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I will never accept life for what it is. I don't need an easy life. My road was meant to be hard because anything worth having in this world will take me to the very edge of myself. I will overcome everything I have ever gone through and will make my future the one God intended me to have. I will pick up the pieces of this pain and sculpt it into art. I am not ordinary and never was. I walk into my birthright as a queen with her head held high. I was born to do this!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain-killing chemicals, improves the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to internal organs.
Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases!
- Patch Adams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Good morning, Hell-A. In the land of the lotus-eaters, time plays tricks on you. One day you’re dreaming, the next, your dream has become your reality. It was the best of times. If only someone had told me. Mistakes were made, hearts were broken, harsh lessons learned. My family goes on without me, while I drown in a sea of pointless pussy. I don’t know how I got here. But here I am, rotting away in the warm California sun. There are things I need to figure out, for her sake, at least. The clock is ticking. The gap is widening. She won’t always love me “no matter what
- Hank Moody
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with us or do not understand, but freedom from pain in the body and from trouble in the mind. For it is not continuous drinkings and revelings, nor the satisfaction of lusts, nor the enjoyment of fish and other luxuries of the wealthy table, which produce a pleasant life, but sober reasoning, searching out the motives for all choice and avoidance, and banishing mere opinions, to which are due the greatest disturbance of the spirit.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
- Napoleon Hill
Think and Grow Rich
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind.
- Pablo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is complicated. If life was simple, wouldn’t that make us simpletons?
- C. Toni Graham
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
- Eric Weiner
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
and we laugh and laugh and
all I know is
at this moment I feel like
I can do anything I want
and be anyone I want
and go anywhere on the globe
and still call it home
- Kirsten Smith
The Geography of Girlhood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
my child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one.
- Carlos Barrios
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A life of happiness, peace, and love is all within our grasp.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —
In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.
- Alberto Caeiro
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
May your day be filled with joy with a sprinkling of positivity on top.
- C. Toni Graham
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.
- Kij Johnson
The Fox Woman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone.
- David O. McKay
Pathways to Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work that’s finished is at least finished. It may be poor, but it exists, like the miserable plant in the lone flowerpot of my neighbour who’s crippled. That plant is her happiness, and sometimes it’s even mine. What I write, bad as it is, may provide some hurt or sad soul a few moments of distraction from something worse. That’s enough for me, or it isn’t enough, but it serves some purpose, and so it is with all of life.
- Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Disquiet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
- George Santayana
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.
- Todd Stocker
Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness… the door is open and unlocked… just walk through it.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion.
- Tony Hsieh
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist."

"Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad."

"That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.
- Lee Goldberg
Mr. Monk on the Couch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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