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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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I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
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To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.
- Dan Simmons
The Rise of Endymion
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.
- George Saunders
Tenth of December
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nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.
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That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.
- Junot Diaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.
- Jacqueline Kelly
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
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Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
- Albert Camus
The Fall
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For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
- Marilyn Monroe
My Story
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Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.
- Bobbe Sommer
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Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.
- Dan Wells
Partials
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The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.
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Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poems of Passion
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Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
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When she absently worried her bottom lip with one of her adorable little fangs, he sighed.
The Enemy of Old fucking sighed.
Dear gods, it’d finally happened to him.
Happiness.
Then his own fangs sharpened.I will kill anyone who tries to take this feeling away from me.
- Kresley Cole
Lothaire
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There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.
- David Benioff
When the Nines Roll Over and Other Stories
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The best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times—although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage. For each person there are thousands of opportunities, challenges to expand ourselves.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it?
A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
- Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House
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Come clean with a child heart
Laugh as peaches in the summer wind
Let rain on a house roof be a song
Let the writing on your face
be a smell of apple orchards on late June.
- Carl Sandburg
Honey And Salt: Seventy-Seven American Poems on Life, Love, Death, and Nature
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Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.
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Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.
- Ernst Jünger
The Glass Bees
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Many people think it’s normal to cheat on their partners. But they are unaware that by doing so, they will never be able to reach the depths of love.
- Rebecca Harlem
The Pink Cadillac
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I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.
- Dan Simmons
The Rise of Endymion
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.
- George Saunders
Tenth of December
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nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.
- Junot Diaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.
- Jacqueline Kelly
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
- Albert Camus
The Fall
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For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
- Marilyn Monroe
My Story
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.
- Bobbe Sommer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.
- Dan Wells
Partials
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The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poems of Passion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When she absently worried her bottom lip with one of her adorable little fangs, he sighed.
The Enemy of Old fucking sighed.
Dear gods, it’d finally happened to him.
Happiness.
Then his own fangs sharpened.I will kill anyone who tries to take this feeling away from me.
- Kresley Cole
Lothaire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.
- David Benioff
When the Nines Roll Over and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times—although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage. For each person there are thousands of opportunities, challenges to expand ourselves.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it?
A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
- Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Come clean with a child heart
Laugh as peaches in the summer wind
Let rain on a house roof be a song
Let the writing on your face
be a smell of apple orchards on late June.
- Carl Sandburg
Honey And Salt: Seventy-Seven American Poems on Life, Love, Death, and Nature
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.
- Ernst Jünger
The Glass Bees
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many people think it’s normal to cheat on their partners. But they are unaware that by doing so, they will never be able to reach the depths of love.
- Rebecca Harlem
The Pink Cadillac
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.
- Dan Simmons
The Rise of Endymion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.
- George Saunders
Tenth of December
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.
- Junot Diaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.
- Jacqueline Kelly
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
- Albert Camus
The Fall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
- Marilyn Monroe
My Story
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.
- Bobbe Sommer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.
- Dan Wells
Partials
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poems of Passion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When she absently worried her bottom lip with one of her adorable little fangs, he sighed.
The Enemy of Old fucking sighed.
Dear gods, it’d finally happened to him.
Happiness.
Then his own fangs sharpened.I will kill anyone who tries to take this feeling away from me.
- Kresley Cole
Lothaire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.
- David Benioff
When the Nines Roll Over and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times—although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage. For each person there are thousands of opportunities, challenges to expand ourselves.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it?
A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
- Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Come clean with a child heart
Laugh as peaches in the summer wind
Let rain on a house roof be a song
Let the writing on your face
be a smell of apple orchards on late June.
- Carl Sandburg
Honey And Salt: Seventy-Seven American Poems on Life, Love, Death, and Nature
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.
- Ernst Jünger
The Glass Bees
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many people think it’s normal to cheat on their partners. But they are unaware that by doing so, they will never be able to reach the depths of love.
- Rebecca Harlem
The Pink Cadillac
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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