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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 see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you - he will make it up.'

I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified; and I ran after him - he stood at the foot of the stairs.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.
- Dorothy Osborne
Letters to Sir William Temple
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Es dauerte einen Moment, bis er ihr antwortete:
Nein, ich spreche von... von eurer Freiheit, glaube ich. Von dem Glück, das ihr habt, für euch zu leben und auf alles andere zu pfeifen.
- Anna Gavalda
Hunting and Gathering
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
You can't
stop dreaming
just because
the night never
seems to
end.
Topic: Happiness, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
In Zen, there is an old saying: The obstacle is the path. Know that a whole and happy life is not free of obstacles. Quite the contrary, a whole and happy life is riddled with obstacles-they simply become the very stepping-stones that help lift us to a new perspective. It is not what happens to us in this life that shapes us, it is how we choose to respond to what happens to us.
- Dennis Merritt Jones
The Art of Being: 101 Ways to Practice Purpose in Your Life
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The sweet pleasure of your own joy and success is a cultivation of both the heart and mind.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Topic: Happiness, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
I absolutely think that happiness is a choice. One of the most potent forces in human psychology is the power of habit. Do something, think something, often enough and it will become the only thing you can do or think. Choose to be unhappy and soon that’s all you will be. Live in a swamp and you’ll grow webbed feet.
- Nicholas Evans
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
To be happy, make others happy.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
To sense the peace of extinguished passion
Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sign and Its Children
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.
- François Lelord
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I'm not in pursuit of happiness, I'm happiness in pursuit; ready to happen everywhere I go.
- Bernard Kelvin Clive
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
We remember though all the firelit glow
Of a great hearth's gleam and glare,
And we looked for a space at each happy face
And the love that was written there.
- Caris Brooke
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
So in our own poor hides and from our miserable comrades we learn the nature of satiety. Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The First Circle
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.
- Leslie Vernick
Lord, I Just Want to Be Happy
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Find happiness where you can," she said softly. "It's not just the great big whammo things. Look for the beauty of life in the small things, and you'll be the happiest person alive.
- Jackie Sigmund
The Right Words at the Right Time Volume 2: Your Turn!
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Yes, a lifetime of happiness. If it were only the first half hour's happiness, Tavy, I would buy it for you with my last penny. But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
To fall in love for any reason does cause fires of emotion. When we are in love, we ride on a positive energy as compared to not being in love. When we are love, we transcend conditional love to that of unconditional and we are now flowering in consciousness. Love is a very important element of consciousness as it becomes purer with Source union even as our consciousness is expanded further. Consciousness is love that is light.
- Nandhi Tapasyogi
Mastery of Consciousness: Awaken the Inner Prophet: Liberate Yourself with Yogic Wisdom.
Topic: Happiness, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.
- Jack Kornfield
The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Yes: I exist inside my body.
I’m not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket.
I don’t want to conquer worlds because I slept badly,
And I don’t want to eat the world for breakfast because I have a stomach.
Indifferent?
No: a son of the earth, who, if he jumps, it’s wrong,
A moment in the air that’s not for us,
And only happy when his feet hit the ground again,
Pow! In reality where nothing’s missing!

(6/20/1919)
- Alberto Caeiro
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
- John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you - he will make it up.'

I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified; and I ran after him - he stood at the foot of the stairs.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.
- Dorothy Osborne
Letters to Sir William Temple
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Es dauerte einen Moment, bis er ihr antwortete:
Nein, ich spreche von... von eurer Freiheit, glaube ich. Von dem Glück, das ihr habt, für euch zu leben und auf alles andere zu pfeifen.
- Anna Gavalda
Hunting and Gathering
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
You can't
stop dreaming
just because
the night never
seems to
end.
Topic: Happiness, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
In Zen, there is an old saying: The obstacle is the path. Know that a whole and happy life is not free of obstacles. Quite the contrary, a whole and happy life is riddled with obstacles-they simply become the very stepping-stones that help lift us to a new perspective. It is not what happens to us in this life that shapes us, it is how we choose to respond to what happens to us.
- Dennis Merritt Jones
The Art of Being: 101 Ways to Practice Purpose in Your Life
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The sweet pleasure of your own joy and success is a cultivation of both the heart and mind.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Topic: Happiness, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
I absolutely think that happiness is a choice. One of the most potent forces in human psychology is the power of habit. Do something, think something, often enough and it will become the only thing you can do or think. Choose to be unhappy and soon that’s all you will be. Live in a swamp and you’ll grow webbed feet.
- Nicholas Evans
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
To be happy, make others happy.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
To sense the peace of extinguished passion
Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sign and Its Children
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.
- François Lelord
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I'm not in pursuit of happiness, I'm happiness in pursuit; ready to happen everywhere I go.
- Bernard Kelvin Clive
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
We remember though all the firelit glow
Of a great hearth's gleam and glare,
And we looked for a space at each happy face
And the love that was written there.
- Caris Brooke
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
So in our own poor hides and from our miserable comrades we learn the nature of satiety. Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The First Circle
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.
- Leslie Vernick
Lord, I Just Want to Be Happy
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Find happiness where you can," she said softly. "It's not just the great big whammo things. Look for the beauty of life in the small things, and you'll be the happiest person alive.
- Jackie Sigmund
The Right Words at the Right Time Volume 2: Your Turn!
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Yes, a lifetime of happiness. If it were only the first half hour's happiness, Tavy, I would buy it for you with my last penny. But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
To fall in love for any reason does cause fires of emotion. When we are in love, we ride on a positive energy as compared to not being in love. When we are love, we transcend conditional love to that of unconditional and we are now flowering in consciousness. Love is a very important element of consciousness as it becomes purer with Source union even as our consciousness is expanded further. Consciousness is love that is light.
- Nandhi Tapasyogi
Mastery of Consciousness: Awaken the Inner Prophet: Liberate Yourself with Yogic Wisdom.
Topic: Happiness, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.
- Jack Kornfield
The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Yes: I exist inside my body.
I’m not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket.
I don’t want to conquer worlds because I slept badly,
And I don’t want to eat the world for breakfast because I have a stomach.
Indifferent?
No: a son of the earth, who, if he jumps, it’s wrong,
A moment in the air that’s not for us,
And only happy when his feet hit the ground again,
Pow! In reality where nothing’s missing!

(6/20/1919)
- Alberto Caeiro
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
- John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you - he will make it up.'

I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified; and I ran after him - he stood at the foot of the stairs.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.
- Dorothy Osborne
Letters to Sir William Temple
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Es dauerte einen Moment, bis er ihr antwortete:
Nein, ich spreche von... von eurer Freiheit, glaube ich. Von dem Glück, das ihr habt, für euch zu leben und auf alles andere zu pfeifen.
- Anna Gavalda
Hunting and Gathering
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
You can't
stop dreaming
just because
the night never
seems to
end.
Topic: Happiness, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
In Zen, there is an old saying: The obstacle is the path. Know that a whole and happy life is not free of obstacles. Quite the contrary, a whole and happy life is riddled with obstacles-they simply become the very stepping-stones that help lift us to a new perspective. It is not what happens to us in this life that shapes us, it is how we choose to respond to what happens to us.
- Dennis Merritt Jones
The Art of Being: 101 Ways to Practice Purpose in Your Life
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The sweet pleasure of your own joy and success is a cultivation of both the heart and mind.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Topic: Happiness, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
I absolutely think that happiness is a choice. One of the most potent forces in human psychology is the power of habit. Do something, think something, often enough and it will become the only thing you can do or think. Choose to be unhappy and soon that’s all you will be. Live in a swamp and you’ll grow webbed feet.
- Nicholas Evans
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
To be happy, make others happy.
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
To sense the peace of extinguished passion
Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sign and Its Children
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.
- François Lelord
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
I'm not in pursuit of happiness, I'm happiness in pursuit; ready to happen everywhere I go.
- Bernard Kelvin Clive
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
We remember though all the firelit glow
Of a great hearth's gleam and glare,
And we looked for a space at each happy face
And the love that was written there.
- Caris Brooke
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
So in our own poor hides and from our miserable comrades we learn the nature of satiety. Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The First Circle
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.
- Leslie Vernick
Lord, I Just Want to Be Happy
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Find happiness where you can," she said softly. "It's not just the great big whammo things. Look for the beauty of life in the small things, and you'll be the happiest person alive.
- Jackie Sigmund
The Right Words at the Right Time Volume 2: Your Turn!
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Yes, a lifetime of happiness. If it were only the first half hour's happiness, Tavy, I would buy it for you with my last penny. But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
To fall in love for any reason does cause fires of emotion. When we are in love, we ride on a positive energy as compared to not being in love. When we are love, we transcend conditional love to that of unconditional and we are now flowering in consciousness. Love is a very important element of consciousness as it becomes purer with Source union even as our consciousness is expanded further. Consciousness is love that is light.
- Nandhi Tapasyogi
Mastery of Consciousness: Awaken the Inner Prophet: Liberate Yourself with Yogic Wisdom.
Topic: Happiness, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.
- Jack Kornfield
The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
Yes: I exist inside my body.
I’m not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket.
I don’t want to conquer worlds because I slept badly,
And I don’t want to eat the world for breakfast because I have a stomach.
Indifferent?
No: a son of the earth, who, if he jumps, it’s wrong,
A moment in the air that’s not for us,
And only happy when his feet hit the ground again,
Pow! In reality where nothing’s missing!

(6/20/1919)
- Alberto Caeiro
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
Topic: Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
- John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Topic: Happiness
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