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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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May I nurture the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can change and wisdom to know the difference
- Frank Ra
A Course in Happiness: An Authentic Happiness Formula for Well-Being, Meaning and Flourishing
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Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.
- Peter Deunov
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...the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
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When we are happy, we don’t know that we are happy, because happiness requires childlike innocence. When a child is happy, he doesn’t know that he is happy. He doesn’t formulate it, he simply enjoys it.
- Francis Lucille
The Perfume of Silence
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Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none.
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Success, like happiness, is a by-product, not a goal.
- Roy Bennett
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Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
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The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. It is in this relationship that you set the standard for all others.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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Your beliefs have the power to unlock your inner genius or keep you from fully achieving your greatest potential.
- Deborah Day
BE HAPPY NOW!
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When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves.
- Jess C. Scott
Clear: A Guide to Treating Acne Naturally
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…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…
- Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
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There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.
- Josh Billings
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There is no greater misery than false joys.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
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[...]eu nunca tive porra de ideal nenhum, eu só queria era salvar a minha, veja só que coisa mais individualista elitista capitalista, eu só queria era ser feliz, cara, gorda, burra, alienada e completamente feliz.
- Caio Fernando Abreu
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Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
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Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other people's luck.
- Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
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As we drove off into the moonless night, raindrops danced through our headlights like the fireflies of my childhood. I silently cursed the frailty of happiness and doubted whether it ever existed for me. I could remember happier times, though, and those memories fluttered about my mind like fireflies, beckoning with their elusive splendor. But chasing memories held no more promise than catching fireflies. The pursued feelings either vanished or lost their magic upon examination, hardly the green-glowing beauty seen at a distance. So I looked ahead of me and dreamed on into the darkness, hoping to one day find someone who would love me.
- Scott Gaille
The Unmerciful Lawyer
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If you want to make a difference, you must live like no one else and strive to achieve goals that others view as impossible to reach.
- Raoul Davis Jr.
Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life
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There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in. I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back ... And to be honest: I wasn’t really angry. Not anymore. I had left my anger somewhere long ago. Put it down on a park bench and walked away. And yet. It had been so long, I didn’t know any other way of being. One day I woke up and said to myself: It’s not too late. The first days were strange. I had to practice smiling in front of the mirror. But it came back to me. It was as if a weight had been lifted. I let go, and something let go of me.
- Nicole Krauss
The History of Love
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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
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Most sane people feel happy way less often than they act happy.
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When you choose your own way, you lose your happiness
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And me, standing under the splintered night,
catching fractured glimpses into the black behind the black,
hearing the prayers of stars, the angry whispers of the dark summer night.

Its voice cracks,
on your name.

My eyes close,
on your name.
- Marlen Komar
Ugly People Beautiful Hearts
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Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are
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May I nurture the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can change and wisdom to know the difference
- Frank Ra
A Course in Happiness: An Authentic Happiness Formula for Well-Being, Meaning and Flourishing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.
- Peter Deunov
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...the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
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When we are happy, we don’t know that we are happy, because happiness requires childlike innocence. When a child is happy, he doesn’t know that he is happy. He doesn’t formulate it, he simply enjoys it.
- Francis Lucille
The Perfume of Silence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Success, like happiness, is a by-product, not a goal.
- Roy Bennett
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. It is in this relationship that you set the standard for all others.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your beliefs have the power to unlock your inner genius or keep you from fully achieving your greatest potential.
- Deborah Day
BE HAPPY NOW!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves.
- Jess C. Scott
Clear: A Guide to Treating Acne Naturally
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…
- Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.
- Josh Billings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no greater misery than false joys.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[...]eu nunca tive porra de ideal nenhum, eu só queria era salvar a minha, veja só que coisa mais individualista elitista capitalista, eu só queria era ser feliz, cara, gorda, burra, alienada e completamente feliz.
- Caio Fernando Abreu
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Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other people's luck.
- Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As we drove off into the moonless night, raindrops danced through our headlights like the fireflies of my childhood. I silently cursed the frailty of happiness and doubted whether it ever existed for me. I could remember happier times, though, and those memories fluttered about my mind like fireflies, beckoning with their elusive splendor. But chasing memories held no more promise than catching fireflies. The pursued feelings either vanished or lost their magic upon examination, hardly the green-glowing beauty seen at a distance. So I looked ahead of me and dreamed on into the darkness, hoping to one day find someone who would love me.
- Scott Gaille
The Unmerciful Lawyer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want to make a difference, you must live like no one else and strive to achieve goals that others view as impossible to reach.
- Raoul Davis Jr.
Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in. I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back ... And to be honest: I wasn’t really angry. Not anymore. I had left my anger somewhere long ago. Put it down on a park bench and walked away. And yet. It had been so long, I didn’t know any other way of being. One day I woke up and said to myself: It’s not too late. The first days were strange. I had to practice smiling in front of the mirror. But it came back to me. It was as if a weight had been lifted. I let go, and something let go of me.
- Nicole Krauss
The History of Love
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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most sane people feel happy way less often than they act happy.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you choose your own way, you lose your happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And me, standing under the splintered night,
catching fractured glimpses into the black behind the black,
hearing the prayers of stars, the angry whispers of the dark summer night.

Its voice cracks,
on your name.

My eyes close,
on your name.
- Marlen Komar
Ugly People Beautiful Hearts
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
May I nurture the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can change and wisdom to know the difference
- Frank Ra
A Course in Happiness: An Authentic Happiness Formula for Well-Being, Meaning and Flourishing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.
- Peter Deunov
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we are happy, we don’t know that we are happy, because happiness requires childlike innocence. When a child is happy, he doesn’t know that he is happy. He doesn’t formulate it, he simply enjoys it.
- Francis Lucille
The Perfume of Silence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Success, like happiness, is a by-product, not a goal.
- Roy Bennett
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. It is in this relationship that you set the standard for all others.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your beliefs have the power to unlock your inner genius or keep you from fully achieving your greatest potential.
- Deborah Day
BE HAPPY NOW!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves.
- Jess C. Scott
Clear: A Guide to Treating Acne Naturally
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…
- Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.
- Josh Billings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no greater misery than false joys.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[...]eu nunca tive porra de ideal nenhum, eu só queria era salvar a minha, veja só que coisa mais individualista elitista capitalista, eu só queria era ser feliz, cara, gorda, burra, alienada e completamente feliz.
- Caio Fernando Abreu
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other people's luck.
- Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As we drove off into the moonless night, raindrops danced through our headlights like the fireflies of my childhood. I silently cursed the frailty of happiness and doubted whether it ever existed for me. I could remember happier times, though, and those memories fluttered about my mind like fireflies, beckoning with their elusive splendor. But chasing memories held no more promise than catching fireflies. The pursued feelings either vanished or lost their magic upon examination, hardly the green-glowing beauty seen at a distance. So I looked ahead of me and dreamed on into the darkness, hoping to one day find someone who would love me.
- Scott Gaille
The Unmerciful Lawyer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want to make a difference, you must live like no one else and strive to achieve goals that others view as impossible to reach.
- Raoul Davis Jr.
Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in. I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back ... And to be honest: I wasn’t really angry. Not anymore. I had left my anger somewhere long ago. Put it down on a park bench and walked away. And yet. It had been so long, I didn’t know any other way of being. One day I woke up and said to myself: It’s not too late. The first days were strange. I had to practice smiling in front of the mirror. But it came back to me. It was as if a weight had been lifted. I let go, and something let go of me.
- Nicole Krauss
The History of Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most sane people feel happy way less often than they act happy.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you choose your own way, you lose your happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And me, standing under the splintered night,
catching fractured glimpses into the black behind the black,
hearing the prayers of stars, the angry whispers of the dark summer night.

Its voice cracks,
on your name.

My eyes close,
on your name.
- Marlen Komar
Ugly People Beautiful Hearts
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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