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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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Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
- Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot
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So what's the point, then, if we can't be happy? Why are we doing any of this?"

"Oh, there's definitely happiness," Jack said, turning his back on the ocean and looking at her. "But it's just about moments, not ever-afters." He grinned. "Like when you're right in the middle of the ocean with your friends, with no one trying to kill you in any kind of horrifying way. You have to appreciate these moments when they happen, 'cause obviously we don't get many of them.
- james riley
The Half Upon a Time Trilogy (Boxed Set): Half Upon a Time; Twice Upon a Time; Once Upon the End
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When happiness pours out of your heart, good pours out into the world.
- Gillian Duce
Demons And Dangers: Magic And Mayhem - Book 4
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Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society
- Mohadesa Najumi
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Maybe Shakespeare was right. Maybe all the world was a stage. Maybe without the act everything would fall apart. The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.
- Matt Haig
How to Stop Time
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The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.
- Hermann Hesse
The Glass Bead Game
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Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.
- George Alexiou
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Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness
- Vijay Dhameliya
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I Am ! Two powerful words.... You must confess... I Am who God called me to be. I Am a Success. I Am not what you think of me. I Am more than a conqueror. I Am walking by Faith. I Am a Gift.
- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Release The Ink
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Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.
- Heather O'Neill
Lullabies for Little Criminals
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Again, I am surprised why people seek to eliminate lust and cling to love; as they wish to ignore happiness and cleave unto joy! Now, now, let's not sugar-coat things! Lust has a lot more to do with life and what is the good of life if you do not carry much lust inside of you at all times? And joy is a noble thing, but happiness though fleeting can be found every day and in every small little way!
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People expected something for nothing, that’s why they did nothing so beautifully these days.
- Holly Hood
Prison of Paradise
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I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books , music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire?
- Leo Tolstoy
Семейное счастие
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We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.
- Wilhelm Reich
Children of the Future: On the Prevention of Sexual Pathology
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How suicidal happiness can be!
- Franz Kafka
The Castle
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May the Gods all preserve for me (until my present form ceases) this clear and sunlit view of external reality, the instinctive awareness of my unimportance, the cosiness of being small, and the solace of being able to imagine myself happy.
- Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Disquiet
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It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it.
- Haim Shapira
Things That Matter
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A Friend
Someone
You're happy to see,
Who's happy to see you.
Someone
You like for who they are
Not just for what they can do for you.
- Nancy J. Cavanaugh
This Journal Belongs to Ratchet
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Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
- Mary Shelley
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...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.
- Gaynor Arnold
Girl in a Blue Dress
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

- Douglas Jerrold
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I did, of course, on both counts, and started going out with the boy I lost my virginity to - all of it. He lost his to me too, except that neither of us felt we had lost anything - just discovered the meaning of life and love and everything else unnecessary in between.
- Elly Varrenti
This is Not My Beautiful Life: Love, Happiness and Other Great Expectations
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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
- Robert Rauschenberg
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Money, sex, human love, various form of entertainment... liquor or drugs... like poisoned honey, may be sweet at first taste but bring disappointment, boredom or misery in the end.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
- Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So what's the point, then, if we can't be happy? Why are we doing any of this?"

"Oh, there's definitely happiness," Jack said, turning his back on the ocean and looking at her. "But it's just about moments, not ever-afters." He grinned. "Like when you're right in the middle of the ocean with your friends, with no one trying to kill you in any kind of horrifying way. You have to appreciate these moments when they happen, 'cause obviously we don't get many of them.
- james riley
The Half Upon a Time Trilogy (Boxed Set): Half Upon a Time; Twice Upon a Time; Once Upon the End
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When happiness pours out of your heart, good pours out into the world.
- Gillian Duce
Demons And Dangers: Magic And Mayhem - Book 4
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society
- Mohadesa Najumi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe Shakespeare was right. Maybe all the world was a stage. Maybe without the act everything would fall apart. The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.
- Matt Haig
How to Stop Time
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.
- Hermann Hesse
The Glass Bead Game
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.
- George Alexiou
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness
- Vijay Dhameliya
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I Am ! Two powerful words.... You must confess... I Am who God called me to be. I Am a Success. I Am not what you think of me. I Am more than a conqueror. I Am walking by Faith. I Am a Gift.
- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Release The Ink
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.
- Heather O'Neill
Lullabies for Little Criminals
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Again, I am surprised why people seek to eliminate lust and cling to love; as they wish to ignore happiness and cleave unto joy! Now, now, let's not sugar-coat things! Lust has a lot more to do with life and what is the good of life if you do not carry much lust inside of you at all times? And joy is a noble thing, but happiness though fleeting can be found every day and in every small little way!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People expected something for nothing, that’s why they did nothing so beautifully these days.
- Holly Hood
Prison of Paradise
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books , music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire?
- Leo Tolstoy
Семейное счастие
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.
- Wilhelm Reich
Children of the Future: On the Prevention of Sexual Pathology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How suicidal happiness can be!
- Franz Kafka
The Castle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
May the Gods all preserve for me (until my present form ceases) this clear and sunlit view of external reality, the instinctive awareness of my unimportance, the cosiness of being small, and the solace of being able to imagine myself happy.
- Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Disquiet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it.
- Haim Shapira
Things That Matter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A Friend
Someone
You're happy to see,
Who's happy to see you.
Someone
You like for who they are
Not just for what they can do for you.
- Nancy J. Cavanaugh
This Journal Belongs to Ratchet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
- Mary Shelley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.
- Gaynor Arnold
Girl in a Blue Dress
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

- Douglas Jerrold
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I did, of course, on both counts, and started going out with the boy I lost my virginity to - all of it. He lost his to me too, except that neither of us felt we had lost anything - just discovered the meaning of life and love and everything else unnecessary in between.
- Elly Varrenti
This is Not My Beautiful Life: Love, Happiness and Other Great Expectations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
- Robert Rauschenberg
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Money, sex, human love, various form of entertainment... liquor or drugs... like poisoned honey, may be sweet at first taste but bring disappointment, boredom or misery in the end.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
- Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So what's the point, then, if we can't be happy? Why are we doing any of this?"

"Oh, there's definitely happiness," Jack said, turning his back on the ocean and looking at her. "But it's just about moments, not ever-afters." He grinned. "Like when you're right in the middle of the ocean with your friends, with no one trying to kill you in any kind of horrifying way. You have to appreciate these moments when they happen, 'cause obviously we don't get many of them.
- james riley
The Half Upon a Time Trilogy (Boxed Set): Half Upon a Time; Twice Upon a Time; Once Upon the End
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When happiness pours out of your heart, good pours out into the world.
- Gillian Duce
Demons And Dangers: Magic And Mayhem - Book 4
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society
- Mohadesa Najumi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe Shakespeare was right. Maybe all the world was a stage. Maybe without the act everything would fall apart. The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.
- Matt Haig
How to Stop Time
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.
- Hermann Hesse
The Glass Bead Game
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.
- George Alexiou
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness
- Vijay Dhameliya
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I Am ! Two powerful words.... You must confess... I Am who God called me to be. I Am a Success. I Am not what you think of me. I Am more than a conqueror. I Am walking by Faith. I Am a Gift.
- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Release The Ink
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.
- Heather O'Neill
Lullabies for Little Criminals
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Again, I am surprised why people seek to eliminate lust and cling to love; as they wish to ignore happiness and cleave unto joy! Now, now, let's not sugar-coat things! Lust has a lot more to do with life and what is the good of life if you do not carry much lust inside of you at all times? And joy is a noble thing, but happiness though fleeting can be found every day and in every small little way!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People expected something for nothing, that’s why they did nothing so beautifully these days.
- Holly Hood
Prison of Paradise
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books , music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire?
- Leo Tolstoy
Семейное счастие
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.
- Wilhelm Reich
Children of the Future: On the Prevention of Sexual Pathology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How suicidal happiness can be!
- Franz Kafka
The Castle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
May the Gods all preserve for me (until my present form ceases) this clear and sunlit view of external reality, the instinctive awareness of my unimportance, the cosiness of being small, and the solace of being able to imagine myself happy.
- Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Disquiet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it.
- Haim Shapira
Things That Matter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A Friend
Someone
You're happy to see,
Who's happy to see you.
Someone
You like for who they are
Not just for what they can do for you.
- Nancy J. Cavanaugh
This Journal Belongs to Ratchet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
- Mary Shelley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.
- Gaynor Arnold
Girl in a Blue Dress
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

- Douglas Jerrold
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I did, of course, on both counts, and started going out with the boy I lost my virginity to - all of it. He lost his to me too, except that neither of us felt we had lost anything - just discovered the meaning of life and love and everything else unnecessary in between.
- Elly Varrenti
This is Not My Beautiful Life: Love, Happiness and Other Great Expectations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
- Robert Rauschenberg
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Money, sex, human love, various form of entertainment... liquor or drugs... like poisoned honey, may be sweet at first taste but bring disappointment, boredom or misery in the end.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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