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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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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
- James Matthew Barrie
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Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
- Daisaku Ikeda
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
- Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
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Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.
- Ann Brashares
Sisterhood Everlasting
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I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more...
- Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
- Marcel Pagnol
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dear today,

i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.
- Nina LaCour
Hold Still
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Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.
- Joseph Smith
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
- Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
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There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.
- Aaron Lauritsen
100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
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There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."
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"There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality."
...
"But they used to take morphia and cocaine."
...
"Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178."
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"Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug."
...
"Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant."
...
"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."
...
"Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology."
...
"Stability was practically assured.
- Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
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In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?
- E.M. Forster
Maurice
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She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!
- Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
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It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.
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When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.
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The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
- Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
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If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
- Dalai Lama XIV
The Art of Happiness
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
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People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t
- Stephen Fry
Moab Is My Washpot
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Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.
- Stephen Richards
Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
- James Matthew Barrie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
- Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.
- Ann Brashares
Sisterhood Everlasting
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I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more...
- Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
- Marcel Pagnol
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dear today,

i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.
- Nina LaCour
Hold Still
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.
- Joseph Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
- Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.
- Aaron Lauritsen
100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."
...
"There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality."
...
"But they used to take morphia and cocaine."
...
"Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178."
...
"Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug."
...
"Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant."
...
"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."
...
"Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology."
...
"Stability was practically assured.
- Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?
- E.M. Forster
Maurice
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She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!
- Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
- Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
- Dalai Lama XIV
The Art of Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t
- Stephen Fry
Moab Is My Washpot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.
- Stephen Richards
Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
- James Matthew Barrie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
- Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.
- Ann Brashares
Sisterhood Everlasting
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more...
- Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
- Marcel Pagnol
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
dear today,

i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.
- Nina LaCour
Hold Still
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.
- Joseph Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
- Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.
- Aaron Lauritsen
100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."
...
"There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality."
...
"But they used to take morphia and cocaine."
...
"Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178."
...
"Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug."
...
"Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant."
...
"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."
...
"Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology."
...
"Stability was practically assured.
- Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?
- E.M. Forster
Maurice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!
- Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
- Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
- Dalai Lama XIV
The Art of Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t
- Stephen Fry
Moab Is My Washpot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.
- Stephen Richards
Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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