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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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It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.
- John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
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Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
- Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram
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Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
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Happiness is a state of activity.
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Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.
- Gretchen Rubin
The Happiness Project
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Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.
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The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.
- Michael Pollan
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.
- J. Cornell Michel
Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution
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Judgment is a negative frequency.
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You can't buy happiness
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Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
- John Chrysostom
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She was like the sun,
She knew her place in the world -
She would shine again regardless
of all the storms and changeable weather
She wouldn't adjust her purpose
for things that pass.
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The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
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What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.
- Roman Payne
The Wanderess
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I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.
- Ai Yazawa
Nana, Vol. 18
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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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Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.
Let it teach you Being.
Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real.
Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.
- Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
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Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind. It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching.
- Dalai Lama XIV
The Art of Happiness
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  When we’re together, I feel like the sun just came out on a cloudy day.
- Dawn Chalker
Lost and Found
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Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
- Orson Scott Card
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
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A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?
- Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Sons
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Beauty is not a warrant for wellbeing and so does happiness not hinge on social success, but is only tangible via intricate, meandering discovery journeys in the mind. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")
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As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son.” For a second I expected his voice to morph into Uncle Sid’s as he urged me to give his love to Rose Marie and the Mounties.
- Michael Wyndham Thomas
The Erkeley Shadows
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Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me"

Last night
the rain
spoke to me
slowly, saying,

what joy
to come falling
out of the brisk cloud,
to be happy again

in a new way
on the earth!
That’s what it said
as it dropped,

smelling of iron,
and vanished
like a dream of the ocean
into the branches

and the grass below.
Then it was over.
The sky cleared.
I was standing

under a tree.
The tree was a tree
with happy leaves,
and I was myself,

and there were stars in the sky
that were also themselves
at the moment,
at which moment

my right hand
was holding my left hand
which was holding the tree
which was filled with stars

and the soft rain—
imagine! imagine!
the wild and wondrous journeys
still to be ours.
- Mary Oliver
What Do We Know
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It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.
- John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
- Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is a state of activity.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.
- Gretchen Rubin
The Happiness Project
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.
- Michael Pollan
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.
- J. Cornell Michel
Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Judgment is a negative frequency.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can't buy happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
- John Chrysostom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She was like the sun,
She knew her place in the world -
She would shine again regardless
of all the storms and changeable weather
She wouldn't adjust her purpose
for things that pass.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.
- Roman Payne
The Wanderess
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.
- Ai Yazawa
Nana, Vol. 18
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.
Let it teach you Being.
Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real.
Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.
- Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind. It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching.
- Dalai Lama XIV
The Art of Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
  When we’re together, I feel like the sun just came out on a cloudy day.
- Dawn Chalker
Lost and Found
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
- Orson Scott Card
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?
- Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Sons
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Beauty is not a warrant for wellbeing and so does happiness not hinge on social success, but is only tangible via intricate, meandering discovery journeys in the mind. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son.” For a second I expected his voice to morph into Uncle Sid’s as he urged me to give his love to Rose Marie and the Mounties.
- Michael Wyndham Thomas
The Erkeley Shadows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me"

Last night
the rain
spoke to me
slowly, saying,

what joy
to come falling
out of the brisk cloud,
to be happy again

in a new way
on the earth!
That’s what it said
as it dropped,

smelling of iron,
and vanished
like a dream of the ocean
into the branches

and the grass below.
Then it was over.
The sky cleared.
I was standing

under a tree.
The tree was a tree
with happy leaves,
and I was myself,

and there were stars in the sky
that were also themselves
at the moment,
at which moment

my right hand
was holding my left hand
which was holding the tree
which was filled with stars

and the soft rain—
imagine! imagine!
the wild and wondrous journeys
still to be ours.
- Mary Oliver
What Do We Know
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.
- John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
- Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is a state of activity.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.
- Gretchen Rubin
The Happiness Project
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.
- Michael Pollan
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.
- J. Cornell Michel
Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Judgment is a negative frequency.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can't buy happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
- John Chrysostom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She was like the sun,
She knew her place in the world -
She would shine again regardless
of all the storms and changeable weather
She wouldn't adjust her purpose
for things that pass.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.
- Roman Payne
The Wanderess
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.
- Ai Yazawa
Nana, Vol. 18
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.
Let it teach you Being.
Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real.
Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.
- Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind. It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching.
- Dalai Lama XIV
The Art of Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
  When we’re together, I feel like the sun just came out on a cloudy day.
- Dawn Chalker
Lost and Found
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
- Orson Scott Card
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?
- Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Sons
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Beauty is not a warrant for wellbeing and so does happiness not hinge on social success, but is only tangible via intricate, meandering discovery journeys in the mind. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son.” For a second I expected his voice to morph into Uncle Sid’s as he urged me to give his love to Rose Marie and the Mounties.
- Michael Wyndham Thomas
The Erkeley Shadows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me"

Last night
the rain
spoke to me
slowly, saying,

what joy
to come falling
out of the brisk cloud,
to be happy again

in a new way
on the earth!
That’s what it said
as it dropped,

smelling of iron,
and vanished
like a dream of the ocean
into the branches

and the grass below.
Then it was over.
The sky cleared.
I was standing

under a tree.
The tree was a tree
with happy leaves,
and I was myself,

and there were stars in the sky
that were also themselves
at the moment,
at which moment

my right hand
was holding my left hand
which was holding the tree
which was filled with stars

and the soft rain—
imagine! imagine!
the wild and wondrous journeys
still to be ours.
- Mary Oliver
What Do We Know
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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