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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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My mind to me a kingdom is,
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss
That world affords or grows by kind.
Though much I want which most would have,
Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
- Edward Dyer
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The key to happiness - or that even more desired thing, calmness - lies not in always thinking happy thoughts. No. That is impossible. No mind on earth with any kind of intelligence could spend a lifetime enjoying only happy thoughts. They key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don't become them.
Understand, for instance, that having a sad thought, even having a continual succession of sad thoughts, is not the same as being a sad person.
- Matt Haig
Reasons to Stay Alive
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Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now?
- John P. Strelecky
The Why Cafe
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God can take the ordinary and create the extraordinary. Our incredible God has the power to transform your simple life and give you the life of your dreams. Remarkable things happen in your life when you believe.
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In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why so many marriages are shipwrecked is because as the young couple leave the altar, they fail to realize that human feelings tire and the enthusiasm of the honeymoon is not the same as the more solid happiness of enduring human love. One of the greatest trials of marriage is the absence of solitude. In the first moments of human love, one does not see the little hidden deformities which later on appear.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Three to Get Married
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The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
- Euripides
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The secret of happiness is something to do
- John Burroughs
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Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.
- Shunryu Suzuki
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It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.
- Louis Zukofsky
Collected Fiction
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Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will may enter.
- Ernest Holmes
The Science of Mind
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Happiness was not a word that seemed to apply anymore, when she had lost so many close to her. There was a contentment that felt deeper, that acknowledged and accepted the quieter offerings of small joys—of love and occasional peace in a life that was full of pain.
- Peter Heller
Celine
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Bakers can’t bake bread because they can’t get flour. So why do people burn wheat fields and kill bakers when it’s their fault there’s no flour?
- Debra Borchert
Her Own Legacy
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Wanna be always Happy? Always carry some chocolate with you ;)
- Pablo
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No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for?
- David Gemmell
Lion of Macedon
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I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.
- Patricia Highsmith
Strangers on a Train
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I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.
- Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos
Les Liaisons dangereuses
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If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.
- Ethan Hawke
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She needed to recover. His father had died in January; it was only the end of May. They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months. in that way, their life would return to its original shape, like a spring stretched in bad times but contracting eventually into happiness. That the world could come permanently unsprung had never occurred to him.
- David Wroblewski
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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We mistakenly think that by putting ourselves first, we’ll finally get what we want. In fact, true happiness comes not from thinking more of ourselves, but rather from thinking less of ourselves—from seeing the truly small role we play in something much bigger, much more important than our individual needs.
- Jane McGonigal
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
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Maybe then he would have understood her better, understood how suffering steals the aptitude for happiness from you. Maybe he would have been okay with her melancholy then.
- Amber Sparks
And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges
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Unusual things, they quickly grab my attention. Messy hair and rainy days are my kinds of perfection, but I mostly love when you kiss me hard and take me beyond this realm to that holy place I only find with you.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
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Dads. It’s time to tell our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to show our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to take joy in their twenty-thousand daily questions and their inability to do things as quickly as we’d like. It’s time to take joy in their quirks and their ticks. It’s time to take joy in their facial expressions and their mispronounced words. It’s time to take joy in everything that our kids are.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
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Sometimes you have to get sad before you get happy 'cause otherwise how would you know the difference?
- Maureen Child
And Then Came You: Sam's Story
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I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
- Sebastian Horsley
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My mind to me a kingdom is,
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss
That world affords or grows by kind.
Though much I want which most would have,
Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
- Edward Dyer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The key to happiness - or that even more desired thing, calmness - lies not in always thinking happy thoughts. No. That is impossible. No mind on earth with any kind of intelligence could spend a lifetime enjoying only happy thoughts. They key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don't become them.
Understand, for instance, that having a sad thought, even having a continual succession of sad thoughts, is not the same as being a sad person.
- Matt Haig
Reasons to Stay Alive
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now?
- John P. Strelecky
The Why Cafe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God can take the ordinary and create the extraordinary. Our incredible God has the power to transform your simple life and give you the life of your dreams. Remarkable things happen in your life when you believe.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why so many marriages are shipwrecked is because as the young couple leave the altar, they fail to realize that human feelings tire and the enthusiasm of the honeymoon is not the same as the more solid happiness of enduring human love. One of the greatest trials of marriage is the absence of solitude. In the first moments of human love, one does not see the little hidden deformities which later on appear.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Three to Get Married
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
- Euripides
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The secret of happiness is something to do
- John Burroughs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.
- Shunryu Suzuki
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.
- Louis Zukofsky
Collected Fiction
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will may enter.
- Ernest Holmes
The Science of Mind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness was not a word that seemed to apply anymore, when she had lost so many close to her. There was a contentment that felt deeper, that acknowledged and accepted the quieter offerings of small joys—of love and occasional peace in a life that was full of pain.
- Peter Heller
Celine
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Bakers can’t bake bread because they can’t get flour. So why do people burn wheat fields and kill bakers when it’s their fault there’s no flour?
- Debra Borchert
Her Own Legacy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wanna be always Happy? Always carry some chocolate with you ;)
- Pablo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for?
- David Gemmell
Lion of Macedon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.
- Patricia Highsmith
Strangers on a Train
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.
- Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.
- Ethan Hawke
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She needed to recover. His father had died in January; it was only the end of May. They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months. in that way, their life would return to its original shape, like a spring stretched in bad times but contracting eventually into happiness. That the world could come permanently unsprung had never occurred to him.
- David Wroblewski
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We mistakenly think that by putting ourselves first, we’ll finally get what we want. In fact, true happiness comes not from thinking more of ourselves, but rather from thinking less of ourselves—from seeing the truly small role we play in something much bigger, much more important than our individual needs.
- Jane McGonigal
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe then he would have understood her better, understood how suffering steals the aptitude for happiness from you. Maybe he would have been okay with her melancholy then.
- Amber Sparks
And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Unusual things, they quickly grab my attention. Messy hair and rainy days are my kinds of perfection, but I mostly love when you kiss me hard and take me beyond this realm to that holy place I only find with you.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dads. It’s time to tell our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to show our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to take joy in their twenty-thousand daily questions and their inability to do things as quickly as we’d like. It’s time to take joy in their quirks and their ticks. It’s time to take joy in their facial expressions and their mispronounced words. It’s time to take joy in everything that our kids are.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes you have to get sad before you get happy 'cause otherwise how would you know the difference?
- Maureen Child
And Then Came You: Sam's Story
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
- Sebastian Horsley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My mind to me a kingdom is,
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss
That world affords or grows by kind.
Though much I want which most would have,
Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
- Edward Dyer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The key to happiness - or that even more desired thing, calmness - lies not in always thinking happy thoughts. No. That is impossible. No mind on earth with any kind of intelligence could spend a lifetime enjoying only happy thoughts. They key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don't become them.
Understand, for instance, that having a sad thought, even having a continual succession of sad thoughts, is not the same as being a sad person.
- Matt Haig
Reasons to Stay Alive
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now?
- John P. Strelecky
The Why Cafe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God can take the ordinary and create the extraordinary. Our incredible God has the power to transform your simple life and give you the life of your dreams. Remarkable things happen in your life when you believe.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why so many marriages are shipwrecked is because as the young couple leave the altar, they fail to realize that human feelings tire and the enthusiasm of the honeymoon is not the same as the more solid happiness of enduring human love. One of the greatest trials of marriage is the absence of solitude. In the first moments of human love, one does not see the little hidden deformities which later on appear.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Three to Get Married
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
- Euripides
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The secret of happiness is something to do
- John Burroughs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.
- Shunryu Suzuki
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.
- Louis Zukofsky
Collected Fiction
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will may enter.
- Ernest Holmes
The Science of Mind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness was not a word that seemed to apply anymore, when she had lost so many close to her. There was a contentment that felt deeper, that acknowledged and accepted the quieter offerings of small joys—of love and occasional peace in a life that was full of pain.
- Peter Heller
Celine
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Bakers can’t bake bread because they can’t get flour. So why do people burn wheat fields and kill bakers when it’s their fault there’s no flour?
- Debra Borchert
Her Own Legacy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wanna be always Happy? Always carry some chocolate with you ;)
- Pablo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for?
- David Gemmell
Lion of Macedon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.
- Patricia Highsmith
Strangers on a Train
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.
- Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.
- Ethan Hawke
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She needed to recover. His father had died in January; it was only the end of May. They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months. in that way, their life would return to its original shape, like a spring stretched in bad times but contracting eventually into happiness. That the world could come permanently unsprung had never occurred to him.
- David Wroblewski
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We mistakenly think that by putting ourselves first, we’ll finally get what we want. In fact, true happiness comes not from thinking more of ourselves, but rather from thinking less of ourselves—from seeing the truly small role we play in something much bigger, much more important than our individual needs.
- Jane McGonigal
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe then he would have understood her better, understood how suffering steals the aptitude for happiness from you. Maybe he would have been okay with her melancholy then.
- Amber Sparks
And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Unusual things, they quickly grab my attention. Messy hair and rainy days are my kinds of perfection, but I mostly love when you kiss me hard and take me beyond this realm to that holy place I only find with you.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dads. It’s time to tell our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to show our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to take joy in their twenty-thousand daily questions and their inability to do things as quickly as we’d like. It’s time to take joy in their quirks and their ticks. It’s time to take joy in their facial expressions and their mispronounced words. It’s time to take joy in everything that our kids are.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes you have to get sad before you get happy 'cause otherwise how would you know the difference?
- Maureen Child
And Then Came You: Sam's Story
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
- Sebastian Horsley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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