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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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Dream your dream; and realize that you are more than just the dreamer, you are the point of origin for its reality.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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[Poem: Slates of Grey]

Sullen faces like slates of grey—
What I’d seen on a walk today.

Bodies rushing bodies bolting
Time for life a disregarding.

Money to make and to grow old
What about the hands to hold?

Deadlines, projects, people to meet
What about our own two feet.

Sullen faces like slates of grey...
What I’d see most anyday.
- Jess C Scott
Trouble
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A person cannot direct his emotional life in the way he bids his motor system to reach for a cup. He cannot will himself to want the right thing or to love the right person or to be happy after a disappointment, or even to be happy in happy times. People lack this capacity not through a deficiency of discipline but because the jurisdiction of will is limited to the latest brain and to those functions within its purview. Emotional life can be influenced, but it cannot be commanded.
- Thomas Lewis
A General Theory of Love
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She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.
- Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
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The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
- Lawrence Durrell
The Alexandria Quartet
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Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.
- Salvatore Scibona
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Through strength I found love
In time I found myself in happiness with you
- Alexis Jordan
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Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present.
- Barbara Barrington Jones
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It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.
- Alice Munro
Too Much Happiness: Stories
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Learn to be happy through the good fortunes and joys of your friends and not through senseless quarrels. If you allow these natural feelings to blossom within you, your every burden will seem lighter or more bearable to you, you will find your own way through patience, and you will spread joy everywhere.
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I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost.
- H.P Lovecraft
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You can enjoy a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness in life despite challenging circumstances. It's all in how you think about it.
- Kristi Bowman
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Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
- Thomas Fuller
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It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. But on an occasion such as this it was different, for the spirit of convention was being rigorously adhered to, and in between his ribs Mr. Flay experienced twinges of pleasure.
- Mervyn Peake
Titus Groan
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Give more, so that we can build more, put interest in understanding another more in whatever actions one might carry out in life. Because we all are fighting for survival against adversaries and are sometimes falling, but if we stand together and help shield and strengthen one another, imagine the world that we will live in together, having more happiness with one another, at one another’s side.
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Neglected but Undefeated: The Life of a Boy Who Never Knew a Mother s Love
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It's lovely to see people so happy.
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The ethereal past had blinded him, and the highest happiness he could dream was a return to it.
- E.M. Forster
Maurice
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Then, the massive hands lifted the new people up to a pair of giant indescribable lips and whispered, in a fundamentally untranslatable Creator-language, something that meant, approximately: THIS TIME, BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER. REMEMBER: EACH OF YOU WANTS TO BE HAPPY. AND I WANT YOU TO. EACH OF YOU WANTS TO LIVE FREE FROM FEAR. AND I WANT YOU TO. EACH OF YOU ARE SECRETLY AFRAID YOU ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH. BUT YOU ARE, TRUST ME, YOU ARE.
- George Saunders
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
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Count your blessings as the more you are grateful for what you have the more there is to be grateful for.
- Pravin Agarwal
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Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always become what they are labeled? Was whatever your child just did really the “dumbest thing you’ve ever seen somebody do”? Was it really the “most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
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The more you take responsibility for your attitudes, the more you can adjust yourself in a forward thinking manner.
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Your purpose is your why.
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Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.
- Rodolfo Costa
Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
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Dream your dream; and realize that you are more than just the dreamer, you are the point of origin for its reality.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[Poem: Slates of Grey]

Sullen faces like slates of grey—
What I’d seen on a walk today.

Bodies rushing bodies bolting
Time for life a disregarding.

Money to make and to grow old
What about the hands to hold?

Deadlines, projects, people to meet
What about our own two feet.

Sullen faces like slates of grey...
What I’d see most anyday.
- Jess C Scott
Trouble
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A person cannot direct his emotional life in the way he bids his motor system to reach for a cup. He cannot will himself to want the right thing or to love the right person or to be happy after a disappointment, or even to be happy in happy times. People lack this capacity not through a deficiency of discipline but because the jurisdiction of will is limited to the latest brain and to those functions within its purview. Emotional life can be influenced, but it cannot be commanded.
- Thomas Lewis
A General Theory of Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.
- Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
- Lawrence Durrell
The Alexandria Quartet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.
- Salvatore Scibona
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Through strength I found love
In time I found myself in happiness with you
- Alexis Jordan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present.
- Barbara Barrington Jones
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.
- Alice Munro
Too Much Happiness: Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Learn to be happy through the good fortunes and joys of your friends and not through senseless quarrels. If you allow these natural feelings to blossom within you, your every burden will seem lighter or more bearable to you, you will find your own way through patience, and you will spread joy everywhere.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost.
- H.P Lovecraft
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can enjoy a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness in life despite challenging circumstances. It's all in how you think about it.
- Kristi Bowman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
- Thomas Fuller
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It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. But on an occasion such as this it was different, for the spirit of convention was being rigorously adhered to, and in between his ribs Mr. Flay experienced twinges of pleasure.
- Mervyn Peake
Titus Groan
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Give more, so that we can build more, put interest in understanding another more in whatever actions one might carry out in life. Because we all are fighting for survival against adversaries and are sometimes falling, but if we stand together and help shield and strengthen one another, imagine the world that we will live in together, having more happiness with one another, at one another’s side.
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Neglected but Undefeated: The Life of a Boy Who Never Knew a Mother s Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's lovely to see people so happy.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The ethereal past had blinded him, and the highest happiness he could dream was a return to it.
- E.M. Forster
Maurice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Then, the massive hands lifted the new people up to a pair of giant indescribable lips and whispered, in a fundamentally untranslatable Creator-language, something that meant, approximately: THIS TIME, BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER. REMEMBER: EACH OF YOU WANTS TO BE HAPPY. AND I WANT YOU TO. EACH OF YOU WANTS TO LIVE FREE FROM FEAR. AND I WANT YOU TO. EACH OF YOU ARE SECRETLY AFRAID YOU ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH. BUT YOU ARE, TRUST ME, YOU ARE.
- George Saunders
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
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Count your blessings as the more you are grateful for what you have the more there is to be grateful for.
- Pravin Agarwal
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always become what they are labeled? Was whatever your child just did really the “dumbest thing you’ve ever seen somebody do”? Was it really the “most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The more you take responsibility for your attitudes, the more you can adjust yourself in a forward thinking manner.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your purpose is your why.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.
- Rodolfo Costa
Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
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Dream your dream; and realize that you are more than just the dreamer, you are the point of origin for its reality.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[Poem: Slates of Grey]

Sullen faces like slates of grey—
What I’d seen on a walk today.

Bodies rushing bodies bolting
Time for life a disregarding.

Money to make and to grow old
What about the hands to hold?

Deadlines, projects, people to meet
What about our own two feet.

Sullen faces like slates of grey...
What I’d see most anyday.
- Jess C Scott
Trouble
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A person cannot direct his emotional life in the way he bids his motor system to reach for a cup. He cannot will himself to want the right thing or to love the right person or to be happy after a disappointment, or even to be happy in happy times. People lack this capacity not through a deficiency of discipline but because the jurisdiction of will is limited to the latest brain and to those functions within its purview. Emotional life can be influenced, but it cannot be commanded.
- Thomas Lewis
A General Theory of Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.
- Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
- Lawrence Durrell
The Alexandria Quartet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.
- Salvatore Scibona
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Through strength I found love
In time I found myself in happiness with you
- Alexis Jordan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present.
- Barbara Barrington Jones
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.
- Alice Munro
Too Much Happiness: Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Learn to be happy through the good fortunes and joys of your friends and not through senseless quarrels. If you allow these natural feelings to blossom within you, your every burden will seem lighter or more bearable to you, you will find your own way through patience, and you will spread joy everywhere.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost.
- H.P Lovecraft
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can enjoy a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness in life despite challenging circumstances. It's all in how you think about it.
- Kristi Bowman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
- Thomas Fuller
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. But on an occasion such as this it was different, for the spirit of convention was being rigorously adhered to, and in between his ribs Mr. Flay experienced twinges of pleasure.
- Mervyn Peake
Titus Groan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Give more, so that we can build more, put interest in understanding another more in whatever actions one might carry out in life. Because we all are fighting for survival against adversaries and are sometimes falling, but if we stand together and help shield and strengthen one another, imagine the world that we will live in together, having more happiness with one another, at one another’s side.
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Neglected but Undefeated: The Life of a Boy Who Never Knew a Mother s Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's lovely to see people so happy.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The ethereal past had blinded him, and the highest happiness he could dream was a return to it.
- E.M. Forster
Maurice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Then, the massive hands lifted the new people up to a pair of giant indescribable lips and whispered, in a fundamentally untranslatable Creator-language, something that meant, approximately: THIS TIME, BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER. REMEMBER: EACH OF YOU WANTS TO BE HAPPY. AND I WANT YOU TO. EACH OF YOU WANTS TO LIVE FREE FROM FEAR. AND I WANT YOU TO. EACH OF YOU ARE SECRETLY AFRAID YOU ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH. BUT YOU ARE, TRUST ME, YOU ARE.
- George Saunders
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Count your blessings as the more you are grateful for what you have the more there is to be grateful for.
- Pravin Agarwal
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always become what they are labeled? Was whatever your child just did really the “dumbest thing you’ve ever seen somebody do”? Was it really the “most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The more you take responsibility for your attitudes, the more you can adjust yourself in a forward thinking manner.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your purpose is your why.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.
- Rodolfo Costa
Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
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