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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 truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
- John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany
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Do you not realize that your kids are going to make mistakes, and a lot of them? Do you not realize the damage you do when you push your son’s nose into his mishaps or make your daughter feel worthless because she bumped or spilled something? Do you have any idea how easy it is to make your child feel abject? It’s as simple as letting out the words, “why would you do that!?” or “how many times have I told you…
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
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Pick a sunset, and we'll ride off into it together.
- Timothy M. Brenner
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This planet is a "Hell" and there is no "Heaven" up there. So, learn to be "Happy in Hell".
- Sandeep Mehra
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Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.
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Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.
- Madeleine L'Engle
A Circle of Quiet
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-Please, Anita, go home, and don’t freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone around you be happy. Is that so hard?
When Jason said it like that, it didn’t seem hard. In fact, it seemed to make a lot of sense, but inside, it felt hard. Inside it felt like the hardest thing in the world. To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.
- Laurell K. Hamilton
Incubus Dreams
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O seasons, O castles,
What soul is without flaws?
All its lore is known to me,
Felicity, it enchants us all.
- Arthur Rimbaud
A Season in Hell & Other Poems
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...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming the whiskey. The very idea was as dangerous as presumptive speech: happiness could not be sought or worried into being, or even fully grasped; it should be allowed its own slow pace so that it passes unnoticed, if it ever comes at all.
- John McGahern
That They May Face the Rising Sun
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If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are forever seeking it. The fortunate and successful few are those who have stopped seeking with the ego alone and allow the search to be directed inwardly by the higher self. They alone can find a happiness unblemished by defects or deficiencies, a Supreme Good which is not a further source of pain and sorrow but an endless source of satisfaction and peace.
- Paul Brunton
Healing of the Self, the Negatives: Notebooks
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Life is moving much too fast.
I think I can’t catch up with it.
A little bird flew out of nowhere
and sat calmly on my shoulder.
No worries, I’m not afraid
of being left out now.
I’ll never chase life.
Instead, I’ll try to see, understand
and enjoy life as much as I can.
Little bird, you opened my eyes.
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How critical it is to stay focused on Jesus Christ.
- Henry Hon
ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
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You cannot settle and be happy.
- R. Cooper
Dancing Lessons
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She had never been able to stand her husband, though not for one minute in their married life had she permitted this to make her unhappy. Only people who are fond of somebody can ever be unhappy, she had told her daughter before her wedding.
- Anna Seghers
The Seventh Cross
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Never surrender to you're passions. Dream and live to excess.
- Truth Devour
Unrequited
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The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.
- Vironika Tugaleva
The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
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Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
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If you want more joy in your daily life, smile at the people you meet in the street, the woman sitting beside you on the bus or standing next to you in the queue at the airport, the waiter who brings your food, your colleagues or your employer. There’s a great chance they’ll smile back.
- Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir
10 Years Younger in 10 Weeks
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The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with.
- Nino Gruettke
BOTH of You: Behavior. Opinion. Thinking. Happiness - The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.
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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
- Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome
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L'uomo è infelice perchè è incontentabile.
- Giacomo Leopardi
Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues (Biblioteca Italiana)
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Le Chat

Je souhaite dans ma maison:
Une femme ayant sa raison.
Un chat passant parmi les livres.
Des amis en toute saison
Sans lesquels je ne peux pas vivre.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
Alcools
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Si quieres que tus deseos duren, tienes que pedir algo que te haga feliz y no la felicidad.
- Jackson Pearce
As You Wish
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The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- allan chaimers
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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
- John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you not realize that your kids are going to make mistakes, and a lot of them? Do you not realize the damage you do when you push your son’s nose into his mishaps or make your daughter feel worthless because she bumped or spilled something? Do you have any idea how easy it is to make your child feel abject? It’s as simple as letting out the words, “why would you do that!?” or “how many times have I told you…
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Pick a sunset, and we'll ride off into it together.
- Timothy M. Brenner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This planet is a "Hell" and there is no "Heaven" up there. So, learn to be "Happy in Hell".
- Sandeep Mehra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.
- Madeleine L'Engle
A Circle of Quiet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
-Please, Anita, go home, and don’t freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone around you be happy. Is that so hard?
When Jason said it like that, it didn’t seem hard. In fact, it seemed to make a lot of sense, but inside, it felt hard. Inside it felt like the hardest thing in the world. To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.
- Laurell K. Hamilton
Incubus Dreams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
O seasons, O castles,
What soul is without flaws?
All its lore is known to me,
Felicity, it enchants us all.
- Arthur Rimbaud
A Season in Hell & Other Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming the whiskey. The very idea was as dangerous as presumptive speech: happiness could not be sought or worried into being, or even fully grasped; it should be allowed its own slow pace so that it passes unnoticed, if it ever comes at all.
- John McGahern
That They May Face the Rising Sun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are forever seeking it. The fortunate and successful few are those who have stopped seeking with the ego alone and allow the search to be directed inwardly by the higher self. They alone can find a happiness unblemished by defects or deficiencies, a Supreme Good which is not a further source of pain and sorrow but an endless source of satisfaction and peace.
- Paul Brunton
Healing of the Self, the Negatives: Notebooks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is moving much too fast.
I think I can’t catch up with it.
A little bird flew out of nowhere
and sat calmly on my shoulder.
No worries, I’m not afraid
of being left out now.
I’ll never chase life.
Instead, I’ll try to see, understand
and enjoy life as much as I can.
Little bird, you opened my eyes.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How critical it is to stay focused on Jesus Christ.
- Henry Hon
ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You cannot settle and be happy.
- R. Cooper
Dancing Lessons
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She had never been able to stand her husband, though not for one minute in their married life had she permitted this to make her unhappy. Only people who are fond of somebody can ever be unhappy, she had told her daughter before her wedding.
- Anna Seghers
The Seventh Cross
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never surrender to you're passions. Dream and live to excess.
- Truth Devour
Unrequited
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.
- Vironika Tugaleva
The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want more joy in your daily life, smile at the people you meet in the street, the woman sitting beside you on the bus or standing next to you in the queue at the airport, the waiter who brings your food, your colleagues or your employer. There’s a great chance they’ll smile back.
- Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir
10 Years Younger in 10 Weeks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with.
- Nino Gruettke
BOTH of You: Behavior. Opinion. Thinking. Happiness - The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
- Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
L'uomo è infelice perchè è incontentabile.
- Giacomo Leopardi
Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues (Biblioteca Italiana)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Le Chat

Je souhaite dans ma maison:
Une femme ayant sa raison.
Un chat passant parmi les livres.
Des amis en toute saison
Sans lesquels je ne peux pas vivre.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
Alcools
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Si quieres que tus deseos duren, tienes que pedir algo que te haga feliz y no la felicidad.
- Jackson Pearce
As You Wish
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- allan chaimers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
- John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you not realize that your kids are going to make mistakes, and a lot of them? Do you not realize the damage you do when you push your son’s nose into his mishaps or make your daughter feel worthless because she bumped or spilled something? Do you have any idea how easy it is to make your child feel abject? It’s as simple as letting out the words, “why would you do that!?” or “how many times have I told you…
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Pick a sunset, and we'll ride off into it together.
- Timothy M. Brenner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This planet is a "Hell" and there is no "Heaven" up there. So, learn to be "Happy in Hell".
- Sandeep Mehra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.
- Madeleine L'Engle
A Circle of Quiet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
-Please, Anita, go home, and don’t freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone around you be happy. Is that so hard?
When Jason said it like that, it didn’t seem hard. In fact, it seemed to make a lot of sense, but inside, it felt hard. Inside it felt like the hardest thing in the world. To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.
- Laurell K. Hamilton
Incubus Dreams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
O seasons, O castles,
What soul is without flaws?
All its lore is known to me,
Felicity, it enchants us all.
- Arthur Rimbaud
A Season in Hell & Other Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming the whiskey. The very idea was as dangerous as presumptive speech: happiness could not be sought or worried into being, or even fully grasped; it should be allowed its own slow pace so that it passes unnoticed, if it ever comes at all.
- John McGahern
That They May Face the Rising Sun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are forever seeking it. The fortunate and successful few are those who have stopped seeking with the ego alone and allow the search to be directed inwardly by the higher self. They alone can find a happiness unblemished by defects or deficiencies, a Supreme Good which is not a further source of pain and sorrow but an endless source of satisfaction and peace.
- Paul Brunton
Healing of the Self, the Negatives: Notebooks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is moving much too fast.
I think I can’t catch up with it.
A little bird flew out of nowhere
and sat calmly on my shoulder.
No worries, I’m not afraid
of being left out now.
I’ll never chase life.
Instead, I’ll try to see, understand
and enjoy life as much as I can.
Little bird, you opened my eyes.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How critical it is to stay focused on Jesus Christ.
- Henry Hon
ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You cannot settle and be happy.
- R. Cooper
Dancing Lessons
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She had never been able to stand her husband, though not for one minute in their married life had she permitted this to make her unhappy. Only people who are fond of somebody can ever be unhappy, she had told her daughter before her wedding.
- Anna Seghers
The Seventh Cross
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never surrender to you're passions. Dream and live to excess.
- Truth Devour
Unrequited
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.
- Vironika Tugaleva
The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want more joy in your daily life, smile at the people you meet in the street, the woman sitting beside you on the bus or standing next to you in the queue at the airport, the waiter who brings your food, your colleagues or your employer. There’s a great chance they’ll smile back.
- Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir
10 Years Younger in 10 Weeks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with.
- Nino Gruettke
BOTH of You: Behavior. Opinion. Thinking. Happiness - The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
- Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
L'uomo è infelice perchè è incontentabile.
- Giacomo Leopardi
Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues (Biblioteca Italiana)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Le Chat

Je souhaite dans ma maison:
Une femme ayant sa raison.
Un chat passant parmi les livres.
Des amis en toute saison
Sans lesquels je ne peux pas vivre.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
Alcools
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Si quieres que tus deseos duren, tienes que pedir algo que te haga feliz y no la felicidad.
- Jackson Pearce
As You Wish
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- allan chaimers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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