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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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Keep in mind that the reason you know you can be good to others is only because you've taken strides to be better for and to yourself.
- Alexandra Elle
Words from a Wanderer
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It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy.
- Habeeb Akande
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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world.
- Willaim Lyon Phelps
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The disempowered mind believes dreams come true; the empowered mind knows you bring your dreams to life.
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The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness.
- Michael Pollan
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
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Some people are like a thermometer. If their environment is negative, they are negative. If bad things happen, they are sad. If good things happen, they are happy. They are simply a product of their environment. Successful people, on the other hand, are more like a thermostat. Even if their environment is negative, they choose to be positive.
- Cameron C. Taylor
8 Attributes of Great Achievers
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Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection.
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Happiness changes the way you see the world.
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They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all.

But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.
- Lauren Oliver
Requiem
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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
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There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.
- Lewis Nordan
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No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
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..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.
- Eric Weiner
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion.
- Allan Lokos
Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
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My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.
- Michael Palin
Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
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There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.
- Gretchen Rubin
The Happiness Project
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I am happy and content because I think I am.
- Alain-René Lesage
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Don't interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.
- Dee Dee Artner
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It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.
- Roy Bennett
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Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ourselves, that person seems at once to belong to a different universe, is surrounded with poetry, makes of our lives a vast expanse, quick with sensation, on which that person and ourselves are ever more or less in contact.
- Marcel Proust
Swann’s Way
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Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.
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I had a dream that I would be successful and happy in life…I woke up running out of breath, because I’ve been chasing this dream for quite a while now.
- Starley Ard
Dreaming is for lovers
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[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.
- Jean Vanier
Finding Peace
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Be like the flower, content with its nature.
- Seth D.
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Keep in mind that the reason you know you can be good to others is only because you've taken strides to be better for and to yourself.
- Alexandra Elle
Words from a Wanderer
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It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy.
- Habeeb Akande
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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world.
- Willaim Lyon Phelps
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The disempowered mind believes dreams come true; the empowered mind knows you bring your dreams to life.
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The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness.
- Michael Pollan
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
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Some people are like a thermometer. If their environment is negative, they are negative. If bad things happen, they are sad. If good things happen, they are happy. They are simply a product of their environment. Successful people, on the other hand, are more like a thermostat. Even if their environment is negative, they choose to be positive.
- Cameron C. Taylor
8 Attributes of Great Achievers
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Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness changes the way you see the world.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all.

But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.
- Lauren Oliver
Requiem
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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.
- Lewis Nordan
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No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
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..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.
- Eric Weiner
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion.
- Allan Lokos
Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.
- Michael Palin
Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
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There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.
- Gretchen Rubin
The Happiness Project
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I am happy and content because I think I am.
- Alain-René Lesage
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Don't interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.
- Dee Dee Artner
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It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.
- Roy Bennett
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Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ourselves, that person seems at once to belong to a different universe, is surrounded with poetry, makes of our lives a vast expanse, quick with sensation, on which that person and ourselves are ever more or less in contact.
- Marcel Proust
Swann’s Way
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Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I had a dream that I would be successful and happy in life…I woke up running out of breath, because I’ve been chasing this dream for quite a while now.
- Starley Ard
Dreaming is for lovers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.
- Jean Vanier
Finding Peace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be like the flower, content with its nature.
- Seth D.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Keep in mind that the reason you know you can be good to others is only because you've taken strides to be better for and to yourself.
- Alexandra Elle
Words from a Wanderer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy.
- Habeeb Akande
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world.
- Willaim Lyon Phelps
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The disempowered mind believes dreams come true; the empowered mind knows you bring your dreams to life.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness.
- Michael Pollan
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some people are like a thermometer. If their environment is negative, they are negative. If bad things happen, they are sad. If good things happen, they are happy. They are simply a product of their environment. Successful people, on the other hand, are more like a thermostat. Even if their environment is negative, they choose to be positive.
- Cameron C. Taylor
8 Attributes of Great Achievers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness changes the way you see the world.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all.

But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.
- Lauren Oliver
Requiem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.
- Lewis Nordan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.
- Eric Weiner
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion.
- Allan Lokos
Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.
- Michael Palin
Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.
- Gretchen Rubin
The Happiness Project
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am happy and content because I think I am.
- Alain-René Lesage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.
- Dee Dee Artner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.
- Roy Bennett
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ourselves, that person seems at once to belong to a different universe, is surrounded with poetry, makes of our lives a vast expanse, quick with sensation, on which that person and ourselves are ever more or less in contact.
- Marcel Proust
Swann’s Way
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I had a dream that I would be successful and happy in life…I woke up running out of breath, because I’ve been chasing this dream for quite a while now.
- Starley Ard
Dreaming is for lovers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.
- Jean Vanier
Finding Peace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be like the flower, content with its nature.
- Seth D.
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