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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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No-one can start at [the modern] level. This means that no-one can do anything at this level unless he is already established. . . . At this level no creations are possible, only extensions, and this means that the poor are more dependent on the rich than ever before in human history.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
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To the extent that economic thinking is based on the market, it takes the sacredness out of life, because there can be nothing sacred in something that has a price. Not surprisingly, therefore, if economic thinking pervades the whole of society, even simple non-economic values like beauty, health, or cleanliness can survive only if they prove to be ‘economic’.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
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A revolution of the soul carries you to the peak of ecstasy, for this is the noblest rioting of the deep.
- Jayita Bhattacharjee
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Life was an endless string of miseries; if one came to an end there was another waiting around the corner, and if that misfortune became easier to bear, the next would strike harder, leaving creases on our faces that made us look alike. Even if misfortune came suddenly, we knew it had been there all along, lying in wait on the road in front of us, so we were always ready for it; when the new cloud of trouble descended on us we felt alone, hopelessly alone, inescapably alone, but still we dreamed of the happiness we might find if only we could find other people willing to share our misery.
- Orhan Pamuk
The Black Book
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If this year you were the most you you’ve ever been, if you followed your heart and consciously created a life in alignment with what matters most to you, you’ve already won the game of life.
- Todd Perelmuter
10,000 Mental Steps: A Happiness Challenge
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The future counts as nothing compared with the slightest economic gain now.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Pain is pain
She lost her baby
Her life fell apart
Everyone was there for her lending a helping hand all the time
On the other side she failed her final school year
It hurt her so much
People didn't support her as she drowned in her pain and failure
You see it really doesn't matter what caused your pain
It's all the same my dear
So never feel why is she crying over a failing year awhile I lost my baby
Don't ever compare
Pain is pain
Maybe a different reason
But pain is pain
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It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most;
it's making a great deal out of the little ones—I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now.
- Jean Webster
Daddy Long Legs
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We must remember that, for each of us, our cosmic design is playing out continuously. Or, in other words, Life is constantly executing its mandate for us through us. We can be happy, content and peaceful while we witness our designs playing out by listening to our hearts, by relentlessly doing what we love very, very well. Our role on this planet is to just be led by Life.
- Vaani Anand and AVIS Viswanathan
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The boredom you speak of…that’s what most of us call happiness
- Gabrielle Zevin
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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Life's like a gym membership - you don't know your strength until you're thrown into the weight room! So, when life serves up its toughest challenges, put on your superhero cape and show those obstacles who's boss! After all, who knew you had a knack for turning setbacks into comebacks with a side of sass? Keep flexing those resilience muscles, because you never know what feats of strength you'll conquer next. When life throws you a curveball, knock it out with your wit and charm!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No matter how talented and successful you are, you have to go through what you have to go through. So learn to accept pain and be happy despite the circumstances. Be happy with what you have. Also, learn to appreciate the impermanence of everything: Of Life itself surely. Also, of name, fame, wealth, success and glory. And of failure too. Focus instead on what you love doing and do it very, very well. Simply, if you create great, unputdownable work, both you and your work will be remembered. Forever.
- Vaani Anand and AVIS Viswanathan
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I always used to think that heaven is a place for people who've spent their whole life being good, but it isn't. God is too merciful and kind to make a decision like that. Heaven is simply a place for people who were genuinely unable to be happy on earth.
- Etgar Keret
Gaza Blues: Different Stories
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Surround yourself with people who bring more sunshine than shade, who turn “ugh” into “ahh,” and who sprinkle laughter like confetti. Life’s too short for gloomy vibes and energy vampires. So, wave goodbye to negativity and welcome those who light up your world. Your tribe should be a mix of comedians, dreamers, and go-getters—folks who make even mundane moments feel like a party. Remember, to choose your circle ⭕️ wisely.
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Discipline: not being deterred by a relatively superficial pain while in pursuit of a relatively profound pleasure.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Spiritual leaders who require obedience as a prerequisite to granting any religious reward reveal that they fundamentally misunderstand the true source of happiness.
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Living life well means knowing you can live without it.
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By embracing this duonity—the twoness within the oneness—we create space for all parts of ourselves to align with our deeper nature. When we meet pain and difficulty with compassion, the veils of separation lift, and we see that suffering ultimately reveals its core of love. In this space of open-hearted acceptance, we can rest in profound peace, at home both in our bodies and in the world, distinct yet one.
- Laura Patryas
Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When others see us for who we truly are and love us still, we discover the purest form of happiness. Life's supreme bliss lies in being loved unconditionally — a blessed privilege that only a few ever truly experience.
- Anthon St. Maarten
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Love is losing and vulnerable and delicious and precious and more than these redundant words can sum up in this simple book. In laymen's terms, love is love. Nothing more, nothing less.
- Haig Moses
An Abundance of Apricots
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Today, these four dimensions of the heart confront substantial challenges primarily driven by contemporary lifestyle habits, societal norms, and cultural shifts. The urgency of addressing these challenges is underscored by the alarming rise in lifestyle-related diseases affecting the physical heart and the escalating mental health crises impacting our emotional well-being.
- Jonathan Fisher
Just One Heart: A Cardiologist’s Guide to Healing, Health, and Happiness
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Security, happiness and peaceful relations are desired by all. Until, however, the Great Powers, in collaboration with the little nations, have solved the economic problem and have realized that the resources of the earth belong to no one nation but to humanity as a whole, there will be no peace. The oil of the world, the mineral wealth, the wheat, the sugar and the grains belong to all men everywhere. They are essential to the daily living of the everyday man.
- Alice A. Bailey
Problems of Humanity
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Socially, we’re told, “Go work out. Go look good.” That’s a multi-player competitive game. Other people can see if I’m doing a good job or not. We’re told, “Go make money. Go buy a big house.” Again, external multiplayer competitive game. Training yourself to be happy is completely internal. There is no external progress, no external validation. You’re competing against yourself—it is a single-player game.
- Eric Jorgenson
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No-one can start at [the modern] level. This means that no-one can do anything at this level unless he is already established. . . . At this level no creations are possible, only extensions, and this means that the poor are more dependent on the rich than ever before in human history.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To the extent that economic thinking is based on the market, it takes the sacredness out of life, because there can be nothing sacred in something that has a price. Not surprisingly, therefore, if economic thinking pervades the whole of society, even simple non-economic values like beauty, health, or cleanliness can survive only if they prove to be ‘economic’.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A revolution of the soul carries you to the peak of ecstasy, for this is the noblest rioting of the deep.
- Jayita Bhattacharjee
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life was an endless string of miseries; if one came to an end there was another waiting around the corner, and if that misfortune became easier to bear, the next would strike harder, leaving creases on our faces that made us look alike. Even if misfortune came suddenly, we knew it had been there all along, lying in wait on the road in front of us, so we were always ready for it; when the new cloud of trouble descended on us we felt alone, hopelessly alone, inescapably alone, but still we dreamed of the happiness we might find if only we could find other people willing to share our misery.
- Orhan Pamuk
The Black Book
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If this year you were the most you you’ve ever been, if you followed your heart and consciously created a life in alignment with what matters most to you, you’ve already won the game of life.
- Todd Perelmuter
10,000 Mental Steps: A Happiness Challenge
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The future counts as nothing compared with the slightest economic gain now.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Pain is pain
She lost her baby
Her life fell apart
Everyone was there for her lending a helping hand all the time
On the other side she failed her final school year
It hurt her so much
People didn't support her as she drowned in her pain and failure
You see it really doesn't matter what caused your pain
It's all the same my dear
So never feel why is she crying over a failing year awhile I lost my baby
Don't ever compare
Pain is pain
Maybe a different reason
But pain is pain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most;
it's making a great deal out of the little ones—I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now.
- Jean Webster
Daddy Long Legs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We must remember that, for each of us, our cosmic design is playing out continuously. Or, in other words, Life is constantly executing its mandate for us through us. We can be happy, content and peaceful while we witness our designs playing out by listening to our hearts, by relentlessly doing what we love very, very well. Our role on this planet is to just be led by Life.
- Vaani Anand and AVIS Viswanathan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The boredom you speak of…that’s what most of us call happiness
- Gabrielle Zevin
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life's like a gym membership - you don't know your strength until you're thrown into the weight room! So, when life serves up its toughest challenges, put on your superhero cape and show those obstacles who's boss! After all, who knew you had a knack for turning setbacks into comebacks with a side of sass? Keep flexing those resilience muscles, because you never know what feats of strength you'll conquer next. When life throws you a curveball, knock it out with your wit and charm!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No matter how talented and successful you are, you have to go through what you have to go through. So learn to accept pain and be happy despite the circumstances. Be happy with what you have. Also, learn to appreciate the impermanence of everything: Of Life itself surely. Also, of name, fame, wealth, success and glory. And of failure too. Focus instead on what you love doing and do it very, very well. Simply, if you create great, unputdownable work, both you and your work will be remembered. Forever.
- Vaani Anand and AVIS Viswanathan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I always used to think that heaven is a place for people who've spent their whole life being good, but it isn't. God is too merciful and kind to make a decision like that. Heaven is simply a place for people who were genuinely unable to be happy on earth.
- Etgar Keret
Gaza Blues: Different Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Surround yourself with people who bring more sunshine than shade, who turn “ugh” into “ahh,” and who sprinkle laughter like confetti. Life’s too short for gloomy vibes and energy vampires. So, wave goodbye to negativity and welcome those who light up your world. Your tribe should be a mix of comedians, dreamers, and go-getters—folks who make even mundane moments feel like a party. Remember, to choose your circle ⭕️ wisely.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Discipline: not being deterred by a relatively superficial pain while in pursuit of a relatively profound pleasure.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Spiritual leaders who require obedience as a prerequisite to granting any religious reward reveal that they fundamentally misunderstand the true source of happiness.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Living life well means knowing you can live without it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
By embracing this duonity—the twoness within the oneness—we create space for all parts of ourselves to align with our deeper nature. When we meet pain and difficulty with compassion, the veils of separation lift, and we see that suffering ultimately reveals its core of love. In this space of open-hearted acceptance, we can rest in profound peace, at home both in our bodies and in the world, distinct yet one.
- Laura Patryas
Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When others see us for who we truly are and love us still, we discover the purest form of happiness. Life's supreme bliss lies in being loved unconditionally — a blessed privilege that only a few ever truly experience.
- Anthon St. Maarten
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is losing and vulnerable and delicious and precious and more than these redundant words can sum up in this simple book. In laymen's terms, love is love. Nothing more, nothing less.
- Haig Moses
An Abundance of Apricots
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Today, these four dimensions of the heart confront substantial challenges primarily driven by contemporary lifestyle habits, societal norms, and cultural shifts. The urgency of addressing these challenges is underscored by the alarming rise in lifestyle-related diseases affecting the physical heart and the escalating mental health crises impacting our emotional well-being.
- Jonathan Fisher
Just One Heart: A Cardiologist’s Guide to Healing, Health, and Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Security, happiness and peaceful relations are desired by all. Until, however, the Great Powers, in collaboration with the little nations, have solved the economic problem and have realized that the resources of the earth belong to no one nation but to humanity as a whole, there will be no peace. The oil of the world, the mineral wealth, the wheat, the sugar and the grains belong to all men everywhere. They are essential to the daily living of the everyday man.
- Alice A. Bailey
Problems of Humanity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Socially, we’re told, “Go work out. Go look good.” That’s a multi-player competitive game. Other people can see if I’m doing a good job or not. We’re told, “Go make money. Go buy a big house.” Again, external multiplayer competitive game. Training yourself to be happy is completely internal. There is no external progress, no external validation. You’re competing against yourself—it is a single-player game.
- Eric Jorgenson
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No-one can start at [the modern] level. This means that no-one can do anything at this level unless he is already established. . . . At this level no creations are possible, only extensions, and this means that the poor are more dependent on the rich than ever before in human history.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To the extent that economic thinking is based on the market, it takes the sacredness out of life, because there can be nothing sacred in something that has a price. Not surprisingly, therefore, if economic thinking pervades the whole of society, even simple non-economic values like beauty, health, or cleanliness can survive only if they prove to be ‘economic’.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A revolution of the soul carries you to the peak of ecstasy, for this is the noblest rioting of the deep.
- Jayita Bhattacharjee
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life was an endless string of miseries; if one came to an end there was another waiting around the corner, and if that misfortune became easier to bear, the next would strike harder, leaving creases on our faces that made us look alike. Even if misfortune came suddenly, we knew it had been there all along, lying in wait on the road in front of us, so we were always ready for it; when the new cloud of trouble descended on us we felt alone, hopelessly alone, inescapably alone, but still we dreamed of the happiness we might find if only we could find other people willing to share our misery.
- Orhan Pamuk
The Black Book
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If this year you were the most you you’ve ever been, if you followed your heart and consciously created a life in alignment with what matters most to you, you’ve already won the game of life.
- Todd Perelmuter
10,000 Mental Steps: A Happiness Challenge
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The future counts as nothing compared with the slightest economic gain now.
- Ernst F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Pain is pain
She lost her baby
Her life fell apart
Everyone was there for her lending a helping hand all the time
On the other side she failed her final school year
It hurt her so much
People didn't support her as she drowned in her pain and failure
You see it really doesn't matter what caused your pain
It's all the same my dear
So never feel why is she crying over a failing year awhile I lost my baby
Don't ever compare
Pain is pain
Maybe a different reason
But pain is pain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most;
it's making a great deal out of the little ones—I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now.
- Jean Webster
Daddy Long Legs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We must remember that, for each of us, our cosmic design is playing out continuously. Or, in other words, Life is constantly executing its mandate for us through us. We can be happy, content and peaceful while we witness our designs playing out by listening to our hearts, by relentlessly doing what we love very, very well. Our role on this planet is to just be led by Life.
- Vaani Anand and AVIS Viswanathan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The boredom you speak of…that’s what most of us call happiness
- Gabrielle Zevin
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life's like a gym membership - you don't know your strength until you're thrown into the weight room! So, when life serves up its toughest challenges, put on your superhero cape and show those obstacles who's boss! After all, who knew you had a knack for turning setbacks into comebacks with a side of sass? Keep flexing those resilience muscles, because you never know what feats of strength you'll conquer next. When life throws you a curveball, knock it out with your wit and charm!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No matter how talented and successful you are, you have to go through what you have to go through. So learn to accept pain and be happy despite the circumstances. Be happy with what you have. Also, learn to appreciate the impermanence of everything: Of Life itself surely. Also, of name, fame, wealth, success and glory. And of failure too. Focus instead on what you love doing and do it very, very well. Simply, if you create great, unputdownable work, both you and your work will be remembered. Forever.
- Vaani Anand and AVIS Viswanathan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I always used to think that heaven is a place for people who've spent their whole life being good, but it isn't. God is too merciful and kind to make a decision like that. Heaven is simply a place for people who were genuinely unable to be happy on earth.
- Etgar Keret
Gaza Blues: Different Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Surround yourself with people who bring more sunshine than shade, who turn “ugh” into “ahh,” and who sprinkle laughter like confetti. Life’s too short for gloomy vibes and energy vampires. So, wave goodbye to negativity and welcome those who light up your world. Your tribe should be a mix of comedians, dreamers, and go-getters—folks who make even mundane moments feel like a party. Remember, to choose your circle ⭕️ wisely.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Discipline: not being deterred by a relatively superficial pain while in pursuit of a relatively profound pleasure.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Spiritual leaders who require obedience as a prerequisite to granting any religious reward reveal that they fundamentally misunderstand the true source of happiness.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Living life well means knowing you can live without it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
By embracing this duonity—the twoness within the oneness—we create space for all parts of ourselves to align with our deeper nature. When we meet pain and difficulty with compassion, the veils of separation lift, and we see that suffering ultimately reveals its core of love. In this space of open-hearted acceptance, we can rest in profound peace, at home both in our bodies and in the world, distinct yet one.
- Laura Patryas
Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When others see us for who we truly are and love us still, we discover the purest form of happiness. Life's supreme bliss lies in being loved unconditionally — a blessed privilege that only a few ever truly experience.
- Anthon St. Maarten
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is losing and vulnerable and delicious and precious and more than these redundant words can sum up in this simple book. In laymen's terms, love is love. Nothing more, nothing less.
- Haig Moses
An Abundance of Apricots
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Today, these four dimensions of the heart confront substantial challenges primarily driven by contemporary lifestyle habits, societal norms, and cultural shifts. The urgency of addressing these challenges is underscored by the alarming rise in lifestyle-related diseases affecting the physical heart and the escalating mental health crises impacting our emotional well-being.
- Jonathan Fisher
Just One Heart: A Cardiologist’s Guide to Healing, Health, and Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Security, happiness and peaceful relations are desired by all. Until, however, the Great Powers, in collaboration with the little nations, have solved the economic problem and have realized that the resources of the earth belong to no one nation but to humanity as a whole, there will be no peace. The oil of the world, the mineral wealth, the wheat, the sugar and the grains belong to all men everywhere. They are essential to the daily living of the everyday man.
- Alice A. Bailey
Problems of Humanity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Socially, we’re told, “Go work out. Go look good.” That’s a multi-player competitive game. Other people can see if I’m doing a good job or not. We’re told, “Go make money. Go buy a big house.” Again, external multiplayer competitive game. Training yourself to be happy is completely internal. There is no external progress, no external validation. You’re competing against yourself—it is a single-player game.
- Eric Jorgenson
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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