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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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If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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The Anatomy of Conflict:

If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is no caring. If there is no caring then there is no understanding. If there is no understanding then there is no compassion. If there is no compassion then there is no empathy. If there is no empathy then there is no forgiveness. If there is no forgiveness then there is no kindness. If there is no kindness then there is no honesty. If there is no honesty then there is no love. If there is no love then God doesn't reside there. If God doesn't reside there then there is no peace. If there is no peace then there is no happiness. If there is no happiness ----then there IS CONFLICT BECAUSE THERE IS NO COMMUNICATION!
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Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.
- Clint Eastwood
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When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
- Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume
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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.
- Eckhart Tolle
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
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You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.
- Dan Howell
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The world is so full of a number of things, I ’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Brian Sibley: Or brains even?

Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind.
If you're kind that's it.
- Roald Dahl
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Happiness is good management of expectations and good management means making order and assembling the contingent elements of the "do's'" and the "don'ts", the "maybe yes'" and the "maybe not's". When we really want to live in agreement with ourselves and find peace with the surrounding world, good management is liberating. ( " Expectations " )
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I just wanted to write to tell you that I have been happy during these months together, that I have never been so happy, and that I already know I will never be so happy again.
- Philippe Besson
Lie With Me
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Happiness

So early it's still almost dark out.
I'm near the window with coffee,
and the usual early morning stuff
that passes for thought.

When I see the boy and his friend
walking up the road
to deliver the newspaper.

They wear caps and sweaters,
and one boy has a bag over his shoulder.
They are so happy
they aren't saying anything, these boys.

I think if they could, they would take
each other's arm.
It's early in the morning,
and they are doing this thing together.

They come on, slowly.
The sky is taking on light,
though the moon still hangs pale over the water.

Such beauty that for a minute
death and ambition, even love,
doesn't enter into this.

Happiness. It comes on
unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,
any early morning talk about it.
- Raymond Carver
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Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.
- Leila Sales
Past Perfect
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We need not be afraid of expecting the unexpected, but let us wheedle each instant we enjoy and endear each happy moment we encounter; let us watch each step we take and each move we make, ever since happiness is a loving and appealing fairy, but utterly frail and vulnerable. ("Happy days are back again")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy, not in making others think or know that I am.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.
- Nora Roberts
Tribute
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When a mood of "not belonging" is haunting our mind and tolling the bell for relief or happiness, life may be like a scar on the canvas of our dreams. Now is the time to wake up and slip back to the basics, in the vein of crawling back to mum's lap. ("The grass was greener over there")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'

One grand boulevard with trees
with one grand cafe in sun
with strong black coffee in very small cups.

One not necessarily very beautiful
man or woman who loves you.

One fine day.
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do what is right and you will be at peace.
- Jess Rothenberg
The Catastrophic History of You and Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come. A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight brings it on prematurely. No one confines his unhappiness to the present.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
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Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.
- Amit Ray
Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait. Some of those conditions are within you, such as coherence among the parts and levels of your personality. Other conditions require relationships to things beyond you: Just as plants need sun, water, and good soil to thrive, people need love, work, and a connection to something larger. It is worth striving to get the right relationships between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself. If you get these relationships right, a sense of purpose and meaning will emerge.
- Jonathan Haidt
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
- Joanne Harris
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Anatomy of Conflict:

If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is no caring. If there is no caring then there is no understanding. If there is no understanding then there is no compassion. If there is no compassion then there is no empathy. If there is no empathy then there is no forgiveness. If there is no forgiveness then there is no kindness. If there is no kindness then there is no honesty. If there is no honesty then there is no love. If there is no love then God doesn't reside there. If God doesn't reside there then there is no peace. If there is no peace then there is no happiness. If there is no happiness ----then there IS CONFLICT BECAUSE THERE IS NO COMMUNICATION!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.
- Clint Eastwood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
- Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.
- Eckhart Tolle
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.
- Dan Howell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The world is so full of a number of things, I ’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Brian Sibley: Or brains even?

Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind.
If you're kind that's it.
- Roald Dahl
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is good management of expectations and good management means making order and assembling the contingent elements of the "do's'" and the "don'ts", the "maybe yes'" and the "maybe not's". When we really want to live in agreement with ourselves and find peace with the surrounding world, good management is liberating. ( " Expectations " )
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I just wanted to write to tell you that I have been happy during these months together, that I have never been so happy, and that I already know I will never be so happy again.
- Philippe Besson
Lie With Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness

So early it's still almost dark out.
I'm near the window with coffee,
and the usual early morning stuff
that passes for thought.

When I see the boy and his friend
walking up the road
to deliver the newspaper.

They wear caps and sweaters,
and one boy has a bag over his shoulder.
They are so happy
they aren't saying anything, these boys.

I think if they could, they would take
each other's arm.
It's early in the morning,
and they are doing this thing together.

They come on, slowly.
The sky is taking on light,
though the moon still hangs pale over the water.

Such beauty that for a minute
death and ambition, even love,
doesn't enter into this.

Happiness. It comes on
unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,
any early morning talk about it.
- Raymond Carver
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.
- Leila Sales
Past Perfect
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We need not be afraid of expecting the unexpected, but let us wheedle each instant we enjoy and endear each happy moment we encounter; let us watch each step we take and each move we make, ever since happiness is a loving and appealing fairy, but utterly frail and vulnerable. ("Happy days are back again")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy, not in making others think or know that I am.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.
- Nora Roberts
Tribute
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When a mood of "not belonging" is haunting our mind and tolling the bell for relief or happiness, life may be like a scar on the canvas of our dreams. Now is the time to wake up and slip back to the basics, in the vein of crawling back to mum's lap. ("The grass was greener over there")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'

One grand boulevard with trees
with one grand cafe in sun
with strong black coffee in very small cups.

One not necessarily very beautiful
man or woman who loves you.

One fine day.
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do what is right and you will be at peace.
- Jess Rothenberg
The Catastrophic History of You and Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come. A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight brings it on prematurely. No one confines his unhappiness to the present.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.
- Amit Ray
Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait. Some of those conditions are within you, such as coherence among the parts and levels of your personality. Other conditions require relationships to things beyond you: Just as plants need sun, water, and good soil to thrive, people need love, work, and a connection to something larger. It is worth striving to get the right relationships between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself. If you get these relationships right, a sense of purpose and meaning will emerge.
- Jonathan Haidt
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
- Joanne Harris
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Anatomy of Conflict:

If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is no caring. If there is no caring then there is no understanding. If there is no understanding then there is no compassion. If there is no compassion then there is no empathy. If there is no empathy then there is no forgiveness. If there is no forgiveness then there is no kindness. If there is no kindness then there is no honesty. If there is no honesty then there is no love. If there is no love then God doesn't reside there. If God doesn't reside there then there is no peace. If there is no peace then there is no happiness. If there is no happiness ----then there IS CONFLICT BECAUSE THERE IS NO COMMUNICATION!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.
- Clint Eastwood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
- Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.
- Eckhart Tolle
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.
- Dan Howell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The world is so full of a number of things, I ’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Brian Sibley: Or brains even?

Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind.
If you're kind that's it.
- Roald Dahl
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is good management of expectations and good management means making order and assembling the contingent elements of the "do's'" and the "don'ts", the "maybe yes'" and the "maybe not's". When we really want to live in agreement with ourselves and find peace with the surrounding world, good management is liberating. ( " Expectations " )
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I just wanted to write to tell you that I have been happy during these months together, that I have never been so happy, and that I already know I will never be so happy again.
- Philippe Besson
Lie With Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness

So early it's still almost dark out.
I'm near the window with coffee,
and the usual early morning stuff
that passes for thought.

When I see the boy and his friend
walking up the road
to deliver the newspaper.

They wear caps and sweaters,
and one boy has a bag over his shoulder.
They are so happy
they aren't saying anything, these boys.

I think if they could, they would take
each other's arm.
It's early in the morning,
and they are doing this thing together.

They come on, slowly.
The sky is taking on light,
though the moon still hangs pale over the water.

Such beauty that for a minute
death and ambition, even love,
doesn't enter into this.

Happiness. It comes on
unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,
any early morning talk about it.
- Raymond Carver
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.
- Leila Sales
Past Perfect
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We need not be afraid of expecting the unexpected, but let us wheedle each instant we enjoy and endear each happy moment we encounter; let us watch each step we take and each move we make, ever since happiness is a loving and appealing fairy, but utterly frail and vulnerable. ("Happy days are back again")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy, not in making others think or know that I am.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.
- Nora Roberts
Tribute
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When a mood of "not belonging" is haunting our mind and tolling the bell for relief or happiness, life may be like a scar on the canvas of our dreams. Now is the time to wake up and slip back to the basics, in the vein of crawling back to mum's lap. ("The grass was greener over there")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'

One grand boulevard with trees
with one grand cafe in sun
with strong black coffee in very small cups.

One not necessarily very beautiful
man or woman who loves you.

One fine day.
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do what is right and you will be at peace.
- Jess Rothenberg
The Catastrophic History of You and Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come. A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight brings it on prematurely. No one confines his unhappiness to the present.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.
- Amit Ray
Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait. Some of those conditions are within you, such as coherence among the parts and levels of your personality. Other conditions require relationships to things beyond you: Just as plants need sun, water, and good soil to thrive, people need love, work, and a connection to something larger. It is worth striving to get the right relationships between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself. If you get these relationships right, a sense of purpose and meaning will emerge.
- Jonathan Haidt
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
- Joanne Harris
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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71
72
73
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