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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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[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.
- Lev Grossman
The Magicians
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
- Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery
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Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.
- Simone Elkeles
How to Ruin Your Boyfriend's Reputation
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Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
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There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.
- Elizabeth Berg
The Art of Mending
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I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.
- Willa Cather
My Ántonia
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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
- Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
- Honoré de Balzac
Père Goriot
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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
- Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
- Epicurus
A Guide to Happiness
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Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.
- Cornelia Funke
Inkheart
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.
- Primo Levi
Survival in Auschwitz
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If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.
- Melody Carstairs
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Adrian smiled and clasped my hands, taking a few steps toward me. "And as for who you are, you’re the same beautiful, brave, and ridiculously smart caffeinated fighter you’ve been since the day I met you.” Finally, he put “beautiful” at the top of his list of adjectives. Not that I should have cared.

“Sweet talker,” I scoffed. “You didn’t know anything about me the first time we met.”

“I knew you were beautiful,” he said. “I just hoped for the rest.
- Richelle Mead
The Indigo Spell
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.
- Kiera Cass
The One
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The trees, in both Earth and Heaven, exist in the same form.
- Rebecca Harlem
The Pink Cadillac
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I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.
- Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich's ABC
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
- Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.
- George Bernard Shaw
Misalliance
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[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.
- Lev Grossman
The Magicians
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
- Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.
- Simone Elkeles
How to Ruin Your Boyfriend's Reputation
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
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There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.
- Elizabeth Berg
The Art of Mending
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.
- Willa Cather
My Ántonia
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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
- Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
- Honoré de Balzac
Père Goriot
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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
- Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
- Epicurus
A Guide to Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.
- Cornelia Funke
Inkheart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.
- Primo Levi
Survival in Auschwitz
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If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.
- Melody Carstairs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Adrian smiled and clasped my hands, taking a few steps toward me. "And as for who you are, you’re the same beautiful, brave, and ridiculously smart caffeinated fighter you’ve been since the day I met you.” Finally, he put “beautiful” at the top of his list of adjectives. Not that I should have cared.

“Sweet talker,” I scoffed. “You didn’t know anything about me the first time we met.”

“I knew you were beautiful,” he said. “I just hoped for the rest.
- Richelle Mead
The Indigo Spell
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.
- Kiera Cass
The One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The trees, in both Earth and Heaven, exist in the same form.
- Rebecca Harlem
The Pink Cadillac
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.
- Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich's ABC
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
- Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.
- George Bernard Shaw
Misalliance
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[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.
- Lev Grossman
The Magicians
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
- Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.
- Simone Elkeles
How to Ruin Your Boyfriend's Reputation
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.
- Elizabeth Berg
The Art of Mending
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.
- Willa Cather
My Ántonia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
- Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
- Honoré de Balzac
Père Goriot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
- Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
- Epicurus
A Guide to Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.
- Cornelia Funke
Inkheart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.
- Primo Levi
Survival in Auschwitz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.
- Melody Carstairs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Adrian smiled and clasped my hands, taking a few steps toward me. "And as for who you are, you’re the same beautiful, brave, and ridiculously smart caffeinated fighter you’ve been since the day I met you.” Finally, he put “beautiful” at the top of his list of adjectives. Not that I should have cared.

“Sweet talker,” I scoffed. “You didn’t know anything about me the first time we met.”

“I knew you were beautiful,” he said. “I just hoped for the rest.
- Richelle Mead
The Indigo Spell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.
- Kiera Cass
The One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The trees, in both Earth and Heaven, exist in the same form.
- Rebecca Harlem
The Pink Cadillac
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.
- Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich's ABC
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
- Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.
- George Bernard Shaw
Misalliance
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