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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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Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
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A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
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Life itself is simple...it's just not easy.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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Dads. It’s time to show our sons how to properly treat a woman. It’s time to show our daughters how a girl should expect be treated. It’s time to show forgiveness and compassion. It’s time to show our children empathy. It’s time to break social norms and teach a healthier way of life! It’s time to teach good gender roles and to ditch the unnecessary ones. Does it really matter if your son likes the color pink? Is it going to hurt anybody? Do you not see the damage it inflicts to tell a boy that there is something wrong with him because he likes a certain color? Do we not see the damage we do in labeling our girls “tom boys” or our boys “feminine” just because they have their own likes and opinions on things? Things that really don’t matter?
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
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What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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How do you know if you're genuinely happy or if you're just mostly all right, with sprinkles of laughter and occasional shit storms of sadness?
- Jessica George
Maame
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Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
- Amit Ray
Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
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I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant.
- Syrie James
The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen: A Delightfully Possible Historical Romance of Love and Literary Inspiration
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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
- William Saroyan
My Heart's in the Highlands
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People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much more . . . and they've managed to lead happy contented lives. It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.
- Agatha Christie
A Murder Is Announced
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one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.
- Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife
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The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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I don't have a diary, I don't write things into a diary. I imprint myself into the sky and when the sunlight shines brightly, I can stand under the sun's rays and everything I have imprinted of myself into the sky, I will begin to see again, feel again, remember. And when the wind begins to blow, it blows the details over my face, and I remember everything I left in the sky and see new things being born. I am unwritten.
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I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.
It is really that simple.
And that hard.
- John Connolly
The Infernals
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There is something beautiful about watching two people lovingly act silly together; behaving as though no one else existed.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
- Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf
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When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.
- Deborah Levy
Things I Don't Want to Know
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You don’t have to be happy to smile.
- Daniel Willey
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If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
- Lin Yutang
The Importance of Living
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Las cosas más tristes son las que deberían ser felices y no lo son.
- Chris Pueyo
El chico de las estrellas
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The beauty of life isn't the perfectioned moments or storybook endings; the beauty of life is when you fall flat on your face, the Lord picks you up, then you look around and cheer, after all, a merry heart is the medicine!
- Mary Kate
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Great, she didn't lie to me. "Mind if I tag along with you? I would love to have some company. Please don't say no. I don't know if I can take it if you turn me down, beloved," he spoke inaudibly. "Remember the last time we were at an art gallery together?" he asked. "Sure I do," she remarked, walking slowly. Wish I hadn't gone anywhere with you, Creepville!
- Sharon Carter
Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again
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Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life itself is simple...it's just not easy.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dads. It’s time to show our sons how to properly treat a woman. It’s time to show our daughters how a girl should expect be treated. It’s time to show forgiveness and compassion. It’s time to show our children empathy. It’s time to break social norms and teach a healthier way of life! It’s time to teach good gender roles and to ditch the unnecessary ones. Does it really matter if your son likes the color pink? Is it going to hurt anybody? Do you not see the damage it inflicts to tell a boy that there is something wrong with him because he likes a certain color? Do we not see the damage we do in labeling our girls “tom boys” or our boys “feminine” just because they have their own likes and opinions on things? Things that really don’t matter?
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
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What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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How do you know if you're genuinely happy or if you're just mostly all right, with sprinkles of laughter and occasional shit storms of sadness?
- Jessica George
Maame
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Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
- Amit Ray
Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant.
- Syrie James
The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen: A Delightfully Possible Historical Romance of Love and Literary Inspiration
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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
- William Saroyan
My Heart's in the Highlands
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People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much more . . . and they've managed to lead happy contented lives. It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.
- Agatha Christie
A Murder Is Announced
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one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.
- Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't have a diary, I don't write things into a diary. I imprint myself into the sky and when the sunlight shines brightly, I can stand under the sun's rays and everything I have imprinted of myself into the sky, I will begin to see again, feel again, remember. And when the wind begins to blow, it blows the details over my face, and I remember everything I left in the sky and see new things being born. I am unwritten.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.
It is really that simple.
And that hard.
- John Connolly
The Infernals
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is something beautiful about watching two people lovingly act silly together; behaving as though no one else existed.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
- Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.
- Deborah Levy
Things I Don't Want to Know
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You don’t have to be happy to smile.
- Daniel Willey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
- Lin Yutang
The Importance of Living
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Las cosas más tristes son las que deberían ser felices y no lo son.
- Chris Pueyo
El chico de las estrellas
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The beauty of life isn't the perfectioned moments or storybook endings; the beauty of life is when you fall flat on your face, the Lord picks you up, then you look around and cheer, after all, a merry heart is the medicine!
- Mary Kate
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Great, she didn't lie to me. "Mind if I tag along with you? I would love to have some company. Please don't say no. I don't know if I can take it if you turn me down, beloved," he spoke inaudibly. "Remember the last time we were at an art gallery together?" he asked. "Sure I do," she remarked, walking slowly. Wish I hadn't gone anywhere with you, Creepville!
- Sharon Carter
Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again
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Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life itself is simple...it's just not easy.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dads. It’s time to show our sons how to properly treat a woman. It’s time to show our daughters how a girl should expect be treated. It’s time to show forgiveness and compassion. It’s time to show our children empathy. It’s time to break social norms and teach a healthier way of life! It’s time to teach good gender roles and to ditch the unnecessary ones. Does it really matter if your son likes the color pink? Is it going to hurt anybody? Do you not see the damage it inflicts to tell a boy that there is something wrong with him because he likes a certain color? Do we not see the damage we do in labeling our girls “tom boys” or our boys “feminine” just because they have their own likes and opinions on things? Things that really don’t matter?
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How do you know if you're genuinely happy or if you're just mostly all right, with sprinkles of laughter and occasional shit storms of sadness?
- Jessica George
Maame
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
- Amit Ray
Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant.
- Syrie James
The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen: A Delightfully Possible Historical Romance of Love and Literary Inspiration
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
- William Saroyan
My Heart's in the Highlands
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much more . . . and they've managed to lead happy contented lives. It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.
- Agatha Christie
A Murder Is Announced
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.
- Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't have a diary, I don't write things into a diary. I imprint myself into the sky and when the sunlight shines brightly, I can stand under the sun's rays and everything I have imprinted of myself into the sky, I will begin to see again, feel again, remember. And when the wind begins to blow, it blows the details over my face, and I remember everything I left in the sky and see new things being born. I am unwritten.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.
It is really that simple.
And that hard.
- John Connolly
The Infernals
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is something beautiful about watching two people lovingly act silly together; behaving as though no one else existed.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
- Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.
- Deborah Levy
Things I Don't Want to Know
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You don’t have to be happy to smile.
- Daniel Willey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
- Lin Yutang
The Importance of Living
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Las cosas más tristes son las que deberían ser felices y no lo son.
- Chris Pueyo
El chico de las estrellas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The beauty of life isn't the perfectioned moments or storybook endings; the beauty of life is when you fall flat on your face, the Lord picks you up, then you look around and cheer, after all, a merry heart is the medicine!
- Mary Kate
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Great, she didn't lie to me. "Mind if I tag along with you? I would love to have some company. Please don't say no. I don't know if I can take it if you turn me down, beloved," he spoke inaudibly. "Remember the last time we were at an art gallery together?" he asked. "Sure I do," she remarked, walking slowly. Wish I hadn't gone anywhere with you, Creepville!
- Sharon Carter
Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again
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