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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
Topic: Happiness
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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!
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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.
Topic: Happiness
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
- Napoleon Hill
Think and Grow Rich
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness, Relationships
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
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A life of happiness, peace, and love is all within our grasp.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
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May your day be filled with joy with a sprinkling of positivity on top.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.
- Todd Stocker
Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness, Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion.
- Tony Hsieh
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.
- Marian Keyes
Watermelon
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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!
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
- Napoleon Hill
Think and Grow Rich
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness, Relationships
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
A life of happiness, peace, and love is all within our grasp.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
May your day be filled with joy with a sprinkling of positivity on top.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.
- Todd Stocker
Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness, Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion.
- Tony Hsieh
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.
- Marian Keyes
Watermelon
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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!
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
- Napoleon Hill
Think and Grow Rich
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness, Relationships
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
A life of happiness, peace, and love is all within our grasp.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
May your day be filled with joy with a sprinkling of positivity on top.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.
- Todd Stocker
Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness, Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion.
- Tony Hsieh
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.
- Marian Keyes
Watermelon
Topic: Happiness
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