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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 does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!
- Anton Chekhov
Gooseberries and other stories
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There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.
- Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
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It is very important to understand why those annoying people annoy you and then figure out where that fits into your world.
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Cultivating our "insight" and polishing up our "perception" gives us a free pass to understanding our place in the world, allowing us to earn heavenly sparkles of happiness and awareness on our life path. ("When is Happiness?" - "C’est quand le bonheur ?")
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Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy
- Tim Willocks
The Religion
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
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It's impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho!
- Noel Fielding
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I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.
- Peter Heller
The Dog Stars
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(the whole world is at the
throat of the world,
everybody feels angry,
short-changed, cheated,
everybody is despondent,
disillusioned.)

I welcomed shots of
peace, tattered shards of
happiness.
- Charles Bukowski
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
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The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness...
- Millard Kaufman
Bowl of Cherries
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The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.

(A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.)
- Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson: Writings
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In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
- Josh Billings
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If there was one thing that life has taught me, it’s to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness.
- A. Bondoux
The Killer's Tears
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Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?
- Matthieu Ricard
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
- E.B. White
One Man's Meat
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Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
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Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.
- Peter Deunov
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Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.
- Dan Buettner
Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way
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Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
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I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but i am heavier now, less easily moved, more resolute and steadfast. I am no longer in pursuit of happiness. As I stand here at my front door, key in hand, I think it is just possible that happiness, at least for now, today, this hour, may be in pursuit of me.
- Anne Giardini
The Sad Truth About Happiness
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that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinion is a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks
- Jim Fergus
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
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Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!
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His gut was stitched up good and tight, but that didn’t prevent it from flopping. He wiped his damp palms on the legs of his jeans and stood up shakily, leaning heavily on his cane.
He called himself a masochist for putting himself through this torture day after day.
He braced himself for the disappointment of having to go home alone.
He braced himself for happiness like he’d never known in his entire life.
He watched the door they would come through.
- Sandra Brown
Lethal
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Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!
- Anton Chekhov
Gooseberries and other stories
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There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.
- Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
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It is very important to understand why those annoying people annoy you and then figure out where that fits into your world.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Cultivating our "insight" and polishing up our "perception" gives us a free pass to understanding our place in the world, allowing us to earn heavenly sparkles of happiness and awareness on our life path. ("When is Happiness?" - "C’est quand le bonheur ?")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy
- Tim Willocks
The Religion
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho!
- Noel Fielding
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I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.
- Peter Heller
The Dog Stars
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(the whole world is at the
throat of the world,
everybody feels angry,
short-changed, cheated,
everybody is despondent,
disillusioned.)

I welcomed shots of
peace, tattered shards of
happiness.
- Charles Bukowski
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness...
- Millard Kaufman
Bowl of Cherries
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.

(A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.)
- Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson: Writings
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In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
- Josh Billings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If there was one thing that life has taught me, it’s to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness.
- A. Bondoux
The Killer's Tears
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Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?
- Matthieu Ricard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
- E.B. White
One Man's Meat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.
- Peter Deunov
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.
- Dan Buettner
Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but i am heavier now, less easily moved, more resolute and steadfast. I am no longer in pursuit of happiness. As I stand here at my front door, key in hand, I think it is just possible that happiness, at least for now, today, this hour, may be in pursuit of me.
- Anne Giardini
The Sad Truth About Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinion is a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks
- Jim Fergus
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
His gut was stitched up good and tight, but that didn’t prevent it from flopping. He wiped his damp palms on the legs of his jeans and stood up shakily, leaning heavily on his cane.
He called himself a masochist for putting himself through this torture day after day.
He braced himself for the disappointment of having to go home alone.
He braced himself for happiness like he’d never known in his entire life.
He watched the door they would come through.
- Sandra Brown
Lethal
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!
- Anton Chekhov
Gooseberries and other stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.
- Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is very important to understand why those annoying people annoy you and then figure out where that fits into your world.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Cultivating our "insight" and polishing up our "perception" gives us a free pass to understanding our place in the world, allowing us to earn heavenly sparkles of happiness and awareness on our life path. ("When is Happiness?" - "C’est quand le bonheur ?")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy
- Tim Willocks
The Religion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho!
- Noel Fielding
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.
- Peter Heller
The Dog Stars
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
(the whole world is at the
throat of the world,
everybody feels angry,
short-changed, cheated,
everybody is despondent,
disillusioned.)

I welcomed shots of
peace, tattered shards of
happiness.
- Charles Bukowski
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness...
- Millard Kaufman
Bowl of Cherries
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.

(A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.)
- Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson: Writings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
- Josh Billings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If there was one thing that life has taught me, it’s to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness.
- A. Bondoux
The Killer's Tears
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?
- Matthieu Ricard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
- E.B. White
One Man's Meat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.
- Peter Deunov
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.
- Dan Buettner
Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but i am heavier now, less easily moved, more resolute and steadfast. I am no longer in pursuit of happiness. As I stand here at my front door, key in hand, I think it is just possible that happiness, at least for now, today, this hour, may be in pursuit of me.
- Anne Giardini
The Sad Truth About Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinion is a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks
- Jim Fergus
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
His gut was stitched up good and tight, but that didn’t prevent it from flopping. He wiped his damp palms on the legs of his jeans and stood up shakily, leaning heavily on his cane.
He called himself a masochist for putting himself through this torture day after day.
He braced himself for the disappointment of having to go home alone.
He braced himself for happiness like he’d never known in his entire life.
He watched the door they would come through.
- Sandra Brown
Lethal
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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