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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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Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear
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Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.
- Iris Murdoch
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Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they look for a place to dump it. And if you let them, they’ll dump it on you. So when someone wants to dump on you, don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Believe me. You’ll be happier.
- David J. Pollay
The Law of the Garbage Truck: How to Respond to People Who Dump on You, and How to Stop Dumping on Others
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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
- Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
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Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface.
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i have laughed
more than daffodils
and cried more than June.
- Sanober Khan
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Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.
- T.H. White
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me
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Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes
- Bertolt Brecht
Galileo
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We only realize what happiness is about, after it has slammed the door to our inattention; and killing silence has deafened the tunefulness of our life. ("Happy days are back again")
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
- Ingrid Bergman
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Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
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And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance.
- Gabrielle Williams
Beatle Meets Destiny
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I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.
- Gayle Forman
If I Stay
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Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom
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We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.
- Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Even though I knew this might end in heartbreak, that he might make my life scary and complicated and unpredictable, I knew I couldn't let him walk away. Because I knew he'd also make my life happy and comforting and full.
- Kasie West
By Your Side
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And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day.
- Emily Bronte
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You could just fall in love with me, then.” He leaned closer. “Problem solved.” 
“You first.” I huffed and moved away, pain seared through my chest—stomping out the warmth that had been so alive a moment before.
- J. Rose Black
Chasing Headlines
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Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.
- Amit Ray
Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
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Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.
- Todd Garlington
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I think we go well together. I like being with you because I'm never bored. Even when we're not talking, even when we're not touching, even when we're not in the same room, I'm not bored. I'm never bored. I think it's because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don't see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We're not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you're worth more than you show...
- Anna Gavalda
Someone I Loved
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When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear
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Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.
- Iris Murdoch
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Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they look for a place to dump it. And if you let them, they’ll dump it on you. So when someone wants to dump on you, don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Believe me. You’ll be happier.
- David J. Pollay
The Law of the Garbage Truck: How to Respond to People Who Dump on You, and How to Stop Dumping on Others
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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
- Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
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Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface.
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i have laughed
more than daffodils
and cried more than June.
- Sanober Khan
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Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.
- T.H. White
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me
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Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes
- Bertolt Brecht
Galileo
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We only realize what happiness is about, after it has slammed the door to our inattention; and killing silence has deafened the tunefulness of our life. ("Happy days are back again")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
- Ingrid Bergman
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Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
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And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance.
- Gabrielle Williams
Beatle Meets Destiny
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I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.
- Gayle Forman
If I Stay
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Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom
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We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.
- Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Even though I knew this might end in heartbreak, that he might make my life scary and complicated and unpredictable, I knew I couldn't let him walk away. Because I knew he'd also make my life happy and comforting and full.
- Kasie West
By Your Side
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And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day.
- Emily Bronte
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You could just fall in love with me, then.” He leaned closer. “Problem solved.” 
“You first.” I huffed and moved away, pain seared through my chest—stomping out the warmth that had been so alive a moment before.
- J. Rose Black
Chasing Headlines
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Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.
- Amit Ray
Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
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Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.
- Todd Garlington
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I think we go well together. I like being with you because I'm never bored. Even when we're not talking, even when we're not touching, even when we're not in the same room, I'm not bored. I'm never bored. I think it's because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don't see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We're not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you're worth more than you show...
- Anna Gavalda
Someone I Loved
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When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.
- Iris Murdoch
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Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they look for a place to dump it. And if you let them, they’ll dump it on you. So when someone wants to dump on you, don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Believe me. You’ll be happier.
- David J. Pollay
The Law of the Garbage Truck: How to Respond to People Who Dump on You, and How to Stop Dumping on Others
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
- Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
i have laughed
more than daffodils
and cried more than June.
- Sanober Khan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.
- T.H. White
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes
- Bertolt Brecht
Galileo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We only realize what happiness is about, after it has slammed the door to our inattention; and killing silence has deafened the tunefulness of our life. ("Happy days are back again")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
- Ingrid Bergman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance.
- Gabrielle Williams
Beatle Meets Destiny
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.
- Gayle Forman
If I Stay
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.
- Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Even though I knew this might end in heartbreak, that he might make my life scary and complicated and unpredictable, I knew I couldn't let him walk away. Because I knew he'd also make my life happy and comforting and full.
- Kasie West
By Your Side
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day.
- Emily Bronte
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You could just fall in love with me, then.” He leaned closer. “Problem solved.” 
“You first.” I huffed and moved away, pain seared through my chest—stomping out the warmth that had been so alive a moment before.
- J. Rose Black
Chasing Headlines
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.
- Amit Ray
Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.
- Todd Garlington
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think we go well together. I like being with you because I'm never bored. Even when we're not talking, even when we're not touching, even when we're not in the same room, I'm not bored. I'm never bored. I think it's because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don't see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We're not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you're worth more than you show...
- Anna Gavalda
Someone I Loved
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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