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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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Even more valuable than the Duration of the Lifetime, are Freedom and Happiness during Life.
- Sino Melo
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After all, how many people can count as many as ten years of happiness in their whole lives?
- Ivan Goncharov
The Same Old Story
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The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair
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Life feels like a relentless competition until the truth is revealed: it’s against our own ego.
- Rafsan Al Musawver
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Maybe life itself has no meaning, but everything in life has a meaning, life is about living, everything you live, whether it is pain, happiness, struggle, victory, defeat, love, attachment, living everything

11/01/2025
- Vishesh panthi
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What is man that thou art mindful of him? Melancholy. Men, in a smoking room, recounting their conquests to one another. Was it, as always assumed, a mere boastfulness, a mere rooster crow from the dunghill? No… It was the passionate desire to recreate, to live over again those inestimable instants of life, so tragically few, so irrecoverably lost. ‘That reminds me of one time when I was staying——’ Yes, you can see the wretched man trying to summon them back, those few paltry episodes, and make of them, for his solace, a tiny immortal bouquet.
- Conrad Aiken
Blue Voyage
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Life becomes easier knowing that happiness is not that far out of reach.
- Hwang Bo-Reum
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
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The truth that rests in tomorrow can be awakened as you today.
- Hugh Mahn
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This tiny world is wrapped within a boundless space. Thus, though our fall is confined to the ground, we can fly towards eternity freeing us from all constraints.
- Rafsan Al Musawver
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Hygge is about making the most of what we have in abundance: the everyday. Perhaps Benjamin Franklin said it best: “Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
- Meik Wiking
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
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In life, there are things that cannot be bought, which inherently have higher value than money. Unfortunately, in the modern world, we often neglect them in pursuit of materialistic happiness.
- Blade Seventh
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It is an uncomfortable feeling, because the scientists never tire of telling us that the fruits of their labours are 'neutral': whether they enrich humanity or destroy it depends on how they are used. And who is to decide how they are used? There is nothing in the training of scientists and engineers to enable them to take such decisions, or else, what becomes of the neutrality of science?
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
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Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organisation, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped potential. . . .

Here, then. lies the central problem of development. If the primary causes of poverty are deficiencies in these three respects, then the alleviation of poverty depends primarily on the removal of these deficiencies. Here lies the reason why development cannot be an act of creation. why it cannot be ordered, bought, comprehensively planned: why it requires a process of evolution.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
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Private enterprise is not concerned with what it produces but only with what it gains from production.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
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If the Gross National Product of the United Kingdom grew by, say, five per cent . . . could we then use all or most of this money, this additional wealth. to fulfil our nation’s aspirations? Assuredly not; for under private ownership every bit of wealth, as it arises, is immediately and automatically privately appropriated.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
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Perhaps, ultimately, all we have left are painful memories—those that always brought us sorrow, and those that once filled us with joy.
- Saim .A. Cheeda
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If we’re not careful, we may end up living our life for a thousand other people, but forget the one person who truly matters.
- Todd Perelmuter
10,000 Mental Steps: A Happiness Challenge
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When we expect others to make us feel better, we become the outsourcer of our own happiness.
- Todd Perelmuter
10,000 Mental Steps: A Happiness Challenge
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It's so hard to forget pain, we learn from pain because it’s visceral, hard to ignore, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. Peace feels like something we’re entitled to, and so we don’t pay attention to the quiet lessons it offers. Perhaps the reason we learn so little from peace is because it asks nothing of us. It doesn’t force us to grow or change. Pain, however, demands transformation, leaving us no choice but to learn.
- Carson Anekeya
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If you're happy now, just enjoy being happy now. Tell yourself you're a happy person and keep that with you. You don't have to worry about bad things that haven't even happened yet. It feels like a waste of that happiness.
- Hwang Hyunjin
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It’s possible to live in something like happiness without even knowing it. There comes an instant when you recognize it exists. And in that moment it no longer does.
- Scott Fotheringham
The Rest Is Silence
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I don't think I’ve ever been happy, actually. I don’t really want to be happy. Only stupid people are happy.
- Isela Servin
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Liking someone is a personal joy—sharing it is a choice, not an obligation.
- Nutan Bajracharya
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Life is a function of the manifold past, present and possibly future expressions of our free will or its ultimately voluntary subjugation (to the will of others).
- Arne Klingenberg
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Even more valuable than the Duration of the Lifetime, are Freedom and Happiness during Life.
- Sino Melo
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After all, how many people can count as many as ten years of happiness in their whole lives?
- Ivan Goncharov
The Same Old Story
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The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair
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Life feels like a relentless competition until the truth is revealed: it’s against our own ego.
- Rafsan Al Musawver
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Maybe life itself has no meaning, but everything in life has a meaning, life is about living, everything you live, whether it is pain, happiness, struggle, victory, defeat, love, attachment, living everything

11/01/2025
- Vishesh panthi
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What is man that thou art mindful of him? Melancholy. Men, in a smoking room, recounting their conquests to one another. Was it, as always assumed, a mere boastfulness, a mere rooster crow from the dunghill? No… It was the passionate desire to recreate, to live over again those inestimable instants of life, so tragically few, so irrecoverably lost. ‘That reminds me of one time when I was staying——’ Yes, you can see the wretched man trying to summon them back, those few paltry episodes, and make of them, for his solace, a tiny immortal bouquet.
- Conrad Aiken
Blue Voyage
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Life becomes easier knowing that happiness is not that far out of reach.
- Hwang Bo-Reum
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The truth that rests in tomorrow can be awakened as you today.
- Hugh Mahn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This tiny world is wrapped within a boundless space. Thus, though our fall is confined to the ground, we can fly towards eternity freeing us from all constraints.
- Rafsan Al Musawver
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Hygge is about making the most of what we have in abundance: the everyday. Perhaps Benjamin Franklin said it best: “Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
- Meik Wiking
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In life, there are things that cannot be bought, which inherently have higher value than money. Unfortunately, in the modern world, we often neglect them in pursuit of materialistic happiness.
- Blade Seventh
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It is an uncomfortable feeling, because the scientists never tire of telling us that the fruits of their labours are 'neutral': whether they enrich humanity or destroy it depends on how they are used. And who is to decide how they are used? There is nothing in the training of scientists and engineers to enable them to take such decisions, or else, what becomes of the neutrality of science?
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
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Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organisation, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped potential. . . .

Here, then. lies the central problem of development. If the primary causes of poverty are deficiencies in these three respects, then the alleviation of poverty depends primarily on the removal of these deficiencies. Here lies the reason why development cannot be an act of creation. why it cannot be ordered, bought, comprehensively planned: why it requires a process of evolution.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Private enterprise is not concerned with what it produces but only with what it gains from production.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the Gross National Product of the United Kingdom grew by, say, five per cent . . . could we then use all or most of this money, this additional wealth. to fulfil our nation’s aspirations? Assuredly not; for under private ownership every bit of wealth, as it arises, is immediately and automatically privately appropriated.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Perhaps, ultimately, all we have left are painful memories—those that always brought us sorrow, and those that once filled us with joy.
- Saim .A. Cheeda
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If we’re not careful, we may end up living our life for a thousand other people, but forget the one person who truly matters.
- Todd Perelmuter
10,000 Mental Steps: A Happiness Challenge
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When we expect others to make us feel better, we become the outsourcer of our own happiness.
- Todd Perelmuter
10,000 Mental Steps: A Happiness Challenge
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It's so hard to forget pain, we learn from pain because it’s visceral, hard to ignore, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. Peace feels like something we’re entitled to, and so we don’t pay attention to the quiet lessons it offers. Perhaps the reason we learn so little from peace is because it asks nothing of us. It doesn’t force us to grow or change. Pain, however, demands transformation, leaving us no choice but to learn.
- Carson Anekeya
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If you're happy now, just enjoy being happy now. Tell yourself you're a happy person and keep that with you. You don't have to worry about bad things that haven't even happened yet. It feels like a waste of that happiness.
- Hwang Hyunjin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It’s possible to live in something like happiness without even knowing it. There comes an instant when you recognize it exists. And in that moment it no longer does.
- Scott Fotheringham
The Rest Is Silence
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I don't think I’ve ever been happy, actually. I don’t really want to be happy. Only stupid people are happy.
- Isela Servin
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Liking someone is a personal joy—sharing it is a choice, not an obligation.
- Nutan Bajracharya
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Life is a function of the manifold past, present and possibly future expressions of our free will or its ultimately voluntary subjugation (to the will of others).
- Arne Klingenberg
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Even more valuable than the Duration of the Lifetime, are Freedom and Happiness during Life.
- Sino Melo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
After all, how many people can count as many as ten years of happiness in their whole lives?
- Ivan Goncharov
The Same Old Story
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The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life feels like a relentless competition until the truth is revealed: it’s against our own ego.
- Rafsan Al Musawver
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe life itself has no meaning, but everything in life has a meaning, life is about living, everything you live, whether it is pain, happiness, struggle, victory, defeat, love, attachment, living everything

11/01/2025
- Vishesh panthi
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What is man that thou art mindful of him? Melancholy. Men, in a smoking room, recounting their conquests to one another. Was it, as always assumed, a mere boastfulness, a mere rooster crow from the dunghill? No… It was the passionate desire to recreate, to live over again those inestimable instants of life, so tragically few, so irrecoverably lost. ‘That reminds me of one time when I was staying——’ Yes, you can see the wretched man trying to summon them back, those few paltry episodes, and make of them, for his solace, a tiny immortal bouquet.
- Conrad Aiken
Blue Voyage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life becomes easier knowing that happiness is not that far out of reach.
- Hwang Bo-Reum
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The truth that rests in tomorrow can be awakened as you today.
- Hugh Mahn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This tiny world is wrapped within a boundless space. Thus, though our fall is confined to the ground, we can fly towards eternity freeing us from all constraints.
- Rafsan Al Musawver
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hygge is about making the most of what we have in abundance: the everyday. Perhaps Benjamin Franklin said it best: “Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
- Meik Wiking
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In life, there are things that cannot be bought, which inherently have higher value than money. Unfortunately, in the modern world, we often neglect them in pursuit of materialistic happiness.
- Blade Seventh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is an uncomfortable feeling, because the scientists never tire of telling us that the fruits of their labours are 'neutral': whether they enrich humanity or destroy it depends on how they are used. And who is to decide how they are used? There is nothing in the training of scientists and engineers to enable them to take such decisions, or else, what becomes of the neutrality of science?
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organisation, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped potential. . . .

Here, then. lies the central problem of development. If the primary causes of poverty are deficiencies in these three respects, then the alleviation of poverty depends primarily on the removal of these deficiencies. Here lies the reason why development cannot be an act of creation. why it cannot be ordered, bought, comprehensively planned: why it requires a process of evolution.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Private enterprise is not concerned with what it produces but only with what it gains from production.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the Gross National Product of the United Kingdom grew by, say, five per cent . . . could we then use all or most of this money, this additional wealth. to fulfil our nation’s aspirations? Assuredly not; for under private ownership every bit of wealth, as it arises, is immediately and automatically privately appropriated.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Perhaps, ultimately, all we have left are painful memories—those that always brought us sorrow, and those that once filled us with joy.
- Saim .A. Cheeda
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we’re not careful, we may end up living our life for a thousand other people, but forget the one person who truly matters.
- Todd Perelmuter
10,000 Mental Steps: A Happiness Challenge
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we expect others to make us feel better, we become the outsourcer of our own happiness.
- Todd Perelmuter
10,000 Mental Steps: A Happiness Challenge
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's so hard to forget pain, we learn from pain because it’s visceral, hard to ignore, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. Peace feels like something we’re entitled to, and so we don’t pay attention to the quiet lessons it offers. Perhaps the reason we learn so little from peace is because it asks nothing of us. It doesn’t force us to grow or change. Pain, however, demands transformation, leaving us no choice but to learn.
- Carson Anekeya
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you're happy now, just enjoy being happy now. Tell yourself you're a happy person and keep that with you. You don't have to worry about bad things that haven't even happened yet. It feels like a waste of that happiness.
- Hwang Hyunjin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It’s possible to live in something like happiness without even knowing it. There comes an instant when you recognize it exists. And in that moment it no longer does.
- Scott Fotheringham
The Rest Is Silence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't think I’ve ever been happy, actually. I don’t really want to be happy. Only stupid people are happy.
- Isela Servin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Liking someone is a personal joy—sharing it is a choice, not an obligation.
- Nutan Bajracharya
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is a function of the manifold past, present and possibly future expressions of our free will or its ultimately voluntary subjugation (to the will of others).
- Arne Klingenberg
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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