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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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It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you cut yourself with a knife and squeeze the skin and no blood oozes out.
- Francesca Lia Block
Blood Roses
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I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.
- H.P. Lovecraft
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God bless Dunkin' Donuts.
- Lauren Oliver
Before I Fall
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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
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If you wait for a cake to be given to you so you will be happy- then you will be happy when someone gives you a cake. But if you buy a cake (or bake one) for yourself so you will be happy, you have found the way of happiness.
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As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.
- C.S. Lewis
The Four Loves
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Suffering sucks. Don't do it. Go home and love your wife. Go home and love yourself. Go home
and base your happiness on one thing and one thing only: freedom. Choose freedom, not suffering. Create a life of freedom, not wanting. Have some really good coffee and listen to the red-winged blackbirds in the marsh. Ignore the mosquitoes.
- Laura Munson
This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
An Apology for Idlers
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Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.
- Wayne Coyne
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The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life
- Mohammed Naseehu Ali
The Prophet of Zongo Street: Unforgettable West African Stories of Folklore, Myth, and Modernity
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A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more.
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The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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What is required for many of us, paradoxical though it may sound, is the courage to tolerate happiness without self-sabotage.
- Nathaniel Branden
Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
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An empty bus hurtles through the starry night
Perhaps the driver is singing
and happy because he sings.
- Gunter Grass
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I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.
- Sebastian Faulks
Engleby
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There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness—(if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad as it is, no human body can be happily drunk all the time).
- Roman Payne
Rooftop Soliloquy
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.. she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.
- Gyula Krúdy
Sunflower
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Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
- L.M. Montgomery
Anne's House of Dreams
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Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being, a voice which conveys the vibrant compassion and wisdom of the cosmic life. For different cultures to engage in interaction is to catalyze each other's souls and foster mutual understanding.
- Daisaku Ikeda
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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
- Leslie Caron
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I surround myself with things that make me happy. Why? Because ... it makes me happy.
- Kelly Epperson
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Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
- mary baker eddy
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I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.
- Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
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It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you cut yourself with a knife and squeeze the skin and no blood oozes out.
- Francesca Lia Block
Blood Roses
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I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.
- H.P. Lovecraft
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God bless Dunkin' Donuts.
- Lauren Oliver
Before I Fall
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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you wait for a cake to be given to you so you will be happy- then you will be happy when someone gives you a cake. But if you buy a cake (or bake one) for yourself so you will be happy, you have found the way of happiness.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.
- C.S. Lewis
The Four Loves
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Suffering sucks. Don't do it. Go home and love your wife. Go home and love yourself. Go home
and base your happiness on one thing and one thing only: freedom. Choose freedom, not suffering. Create a life of freedom, not wanting. Have some really good coffee and listen to the red-winged blackbirds in the marsh. Ignore the mosquitoes.
- Laura Munson
This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
An Apology for Idlers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.
- Wayne Coyne
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life
- Mohammed Naseehu Ali
The Prophet of Zongo Street: Unforgettable West African Stories of Folklore, Myth, and Modernity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What is required for many of us, paradoxical though it may sound, is the courage to tolerate happiness without self-sabotage.
- Nathaniel Branden
Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
An empty bus hurtles through the starry night
Perhaps the driver is singing
and happy because he sings.
- Gunter Grass
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.
- Sebastian Faulks
Engleby
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There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness—(if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad as it is, no human body can be happily drunk all the time).
- Roman Payne
Rooftop Soliloquy
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.. she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.
- Gyula Krúdy
Sunflower
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Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
- L.M. Montgomery
Anne's House of Dreams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being, a voice which conveys the vibrant compassion and wisdom of the cosmic life. For different cultures to engage in interaction is to catalyze each other's souls and foster mutual understanding.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
- Leslie Caron
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I surround myself with things that make me happy. Why? Because ... it makes me happy.
- Kelly Epperson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
- mary baker eddy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.
- Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you cut yourself with a knife and squeeze the skin and no blood oozes out.
- Francesca Lia Block
Blood Roses
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.
- H.P. Lovecraft
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God bless Dunkin' Donuts.
- Lauren Oliver
Before I Fall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you wait for a cake to be given to you so you will be happy- then you will be happy when someone gives you a cake. But if you buy a cake (or bake one) for yourself so you will be happy, you have found the way of happiness.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.
- C.S. Lewis
The Four Loves
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Suffering sucks. Don't do it. Go home and love your wife. Go home and love yourself. Go home
and base your happiness on one thing and one thing only: freedom. Choose freedom, not suffering. Create a life of freedom, not wanting. Have some really good coffee and listen to the red-winged blackbirds in the marsh. Ignore the mosquitoes.
- Laura Munson
This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
An Apology for Idlers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.
- Wayne Coyne
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life
- Mohammed Naseehu Ali
The Prophet of Zongo Street: Unforgettable West African Stories of Folklore, Myth, and Modernity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What is required for many of us, paradoxical though it may sound, is the courage to tolerate happiness without self-sabotage.
- Nathaniel Branden
Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
An empty bus hurtles through the starry night
Perhaps the driver is singing
and happy because he sings.
- Gunter Grass
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.
- Sebastian Faulks
Engleby
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness—(if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad as it is, no human body can be happily drunk all the time).
- Roman Payne
Rooftop Soliloquy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
.. she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.
- Gyula Krúdy
Sunflower
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
- L.M. Montgomery
Anne's House of Dreams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being, a voice which conveys the vibrant compassion and wisdom of the cosmic life. For different cultures to engage in interaction is to catalyze each other's souls and foster mutual understanding.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
- Leslie Caron
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I surround myself with things that make me happy. Why? Because ... it makes me happy.
- Kelly Epperson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
- mary baker eddy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.
- Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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