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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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Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves. Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners. It is another story with curved lines. The song of the curved line is called happiness.
- Rene Crevel
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Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.
- Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Sweetheart, happily ever after does exist, it’s just not what you think,” he said. “Happily ever after isn’t a solution to life’s problems or a guarantee that life will be easy; it’s a promise we make ourselves to always live our best lives, despite whatever circumstance comes our way. When we focus on joy in times of heartbreak, when we choose to laugh on the days it’s hard to smile, and when we count our blessings over our losses—that’s what a true happily ever after is all about. You don’t get there by being perfect; on the contrary, it’s our humanity that guides us. And that’s what fairy tales have been trying to teach us all along.
- Chris Colfer
Worlds Collide
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We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own.
- Wil Zeus
Sun Beyond the Clouds
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You know what my father told me when I was little, one day, when he found me crying? He told me that God gave people a fixed number of tears and are of two kinds: tears of sadness and tears of happiness. And that I should not waste my tears elsewhere, but keep them for the moments of happiness. Would be a shame to not have tears to cry then ...
- Irina Binder
Fluturi
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Stop opening yourself up to this womanizer.  He doesn't deserve to know a freaking thing about you," she chastised herself.
- Sharon Carter
Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again
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Too often being happy means being passive or playing it safe. There's no skill required in happiness, no strength of character, nothing extraordinary. Its discontent that drives creation the most--passion, desire, defiance. Revolutions don't come from a place of happiness. If anything, I think it's sadness, or discontent at least, that's at the root of everything beautiful.
- Etaf Rum
A Woman Is No Man
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Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.
- Allison Winn Scotch
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You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.
- Deborah Day
BE HAPPY NOW!
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He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.
- E.M. Forster
Maurice
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There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.
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People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.
- Kathy Lette
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When we give freely, we feel full and complete; when we withhold, we feel small, petty, impotent, and lacking. We are meant to learn this great truth, that giving fulfills us, while withholding and trying to get causes us to feel empty and even more needy. This truth runs counter to our programming, which drives us to try to get something from others to fulfill our neediness, only to end up even more needy, grasping, lacking, and unfulfilled.
- Gina Lake
What About Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment
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If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!
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It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk. The anticipation of dinner and a book. The dinner is by now forgotten; Lessing has been long overshadowed by other writers. What lives undimmed in Clarissa's mind more than three decades later is a kiss at dusk on a patch of dead grass, and a walk around a pond as mosquitoes droned in the darkening air. There is still that singular perfection, and its perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. Now she knows: That was the moment, right then. There has been no other.
- Michael Cunningham
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I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.
- Sri Aurobindo
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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
- Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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Sooner or later, at some point in your life, you’ll realize that money isn’t everything. Nor is happiness. No! We are not here to be happy. The aim of our life should be fulfilment. More than happiness, man seeks meaning. And when he finds it, his life becomes fulfilling.
- Abhaidev
The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
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There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who go with the flow, where destiny takes them, and those who fight their fate. While the formers are blessed with happiness, the latter achieve something far greater–fulfilment.
- Abhaidev
The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
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Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.
- Rodolfo Costa
Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
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I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
- Brandon Boyd
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Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves. Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners. It is another story with curved lines. The song of the curved line is called happiness.
- Rene Crevel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.
- Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sweetheart, happily ever after does exist, it’s just not what you think,” he said. “Happily ever after isn’t a solution to life’s problems or a guarantee that life will be easy; it’s a promise we make ourselves to always live our best lives, despite whatever circumstance comes our way. When we focus on joy in times of heartbreak, when we choose to laugh on the days it’s hard to smile, and when we count our blessings over our losses—that’s what a true happily ever after is all about. You don’t get there by being perfect; on the contrary, it’s our humanity that guides us. And that’s what fairy tales have been trying to teach us all along.
- Chris Colfer
Worlds Collide
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own.
- Wil Zeus
Sun Beyond the Clouds
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You know what my father told me when I was little, one day, when he found me crying? He told me that God gave people a fixed number of tears and are of two kinds: tears of sadness and tears of happiness. And that I should not waste my tears elsewhere, but keep them for the moments of happiness. Would be a shame to not have tears to cry then ...
- Irina Binder
Fluturi
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Stop opening yourself up to this womanizer.  He doesn't deserve to know a freaking thing about you," she chastised herself.
- Sharon Carter
Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Too often being happy means being passive or playing it safe. There's no skill required in happiness, no strength of character, nothing extraordinary. Its discontent that drives creation the most--passion, desire, defiance. Revolutions don't come from a place of happiness. If anything, I think it's sadness, or discontent at least, that's at the root of everything beautiful.
- Etaf Rum
A Woman Is No Man
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.
- Allison Winn Scotch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.
- Deborah Day
BE HAPPY NOW!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.
- E.M. Forster
Maurice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.
- Kathy Lette
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we give freely, we feel full and complete; when we withhold, we feel small, petty, impotent, and lacking. We are meant to learn this great truth, that giving fulfills us, while withholding and trying to get causes us to feel empty and even more needy. This truth runs counter to our programming, which drives us to try to get something from others to fulfill our neediness, only to end up even more needy, grasping, lacking, and unfulfilled.
- Gina Lake
What About Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk. The anticipation of dinner and a book. The dinner is by now forgotten; Lessing has been long overshadowed by other writers. What lives undimmed in Clarissa's mind more than three decades later is a kiss at dusk on a patch of dead grass, and a walk around a pond as mosquitoes droned in the darkening air. There is still that singular perfection, and its perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. Now she knows: That was the moment, right then. There has been no other.
- Michael Cunningham
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.
- Sri Aurobindo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
- Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sooner or later, at some point in your life, you’ll realize that money isn’t everything. Nor is happiness. No! We are not here to be happy. The aim of our life should be fulfilment. More than happiness, man seeks meaning. And when he finds it, his life becomes fulfilling.
- Abhaidev
The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who go with the flow, where destiny takes them, and those who fight their fate. While the formers are blessed with happiness, the latter achieve something far greater–fulfilment.
- Abhaidev
The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.
- Rodolfo Costa
Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
- Brandon Boyd
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves. Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners. It is another story with curved lines. The song of the curved line is called happiness.
- Rene Crevel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.
- Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sweetheart, happily ever after does exist, it’s just not what you think,” he said. “Happily ever after isn’t a solution to life’s problems or a guarantee that life will be easy; it’s a promise we make ourselves to always live our best lives, despite whatever circumstance comes our way. When we focus on joy in times of heartbreak, when we choose to laugh on the days it’s hard to smile, and when we count our blessings over our losses—that’s what a true happily ever after is all about. You don’t get there by being perfect; on the contrary, it’s our humanity that guides us. And that’s what fairy tales have been trying to teach us all along.
- Chris Colfer
Worlds Collide
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own.
- Wil Zeus
Sun Beyond the Clouds
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You know what my father told me when I was little, one day, when he found me crying? He told me that God gave people a fixed number of tears and are of two kinds: tears of sadness and tears of happiness. And that I should not waste my tears elsewhere, but keep them for the moments of happiness. Would be a shame to not have tears to cry then ...
- Irina Binder
Fluturi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Stop opening yourself up to this womanizer.  He doesn't deserve to know a freaking thing about you," she chastised herself.
- Sharon Carter
Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Too often being happy means being passive or playing it safe. There's no skill required in happiness, no strength of character, nothing extraordinary. Its discontent that drives creation the most--passion, desire, defiance. Revolutions don't come from a place of happiness. If anything, I think it's sadness, or discontent at least, that's at the root of everything beautiful.
- Etaf Rum
A Woman Is No Man
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.
- Allison Winn Scotch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.
- Deborah Day
BE HAPPY NOW!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.
- E.M. Forster
Maurice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.
- Kathy Lette
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we give freely, we feel full and complete; when we withhold, we feel small, petty, impotent, and lacking. We are meant to learn this great truth, that giving fulfills us, while withholding and trying to get causes us to feel empty and even more needy. This truth runs counter to our programming, which drives us to try to get something from others to fulfill our neediness, only to end up even more needy, grasping, lacking, and unfulfilled.
- Gina Lake
What About Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk. The anticipation of dinner and a book. The dinner is by now forgotten; Lessing has been long overshadowed by other writers. What lives undimmed in Clarissa's mind more than three decades later is a kiss at dusk on a patch of dead grass, and a walk around a pond as mosquitoes droned in the darkening air. There is still that singular perfection, and its perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. Now she knows: That was the moment, right then. There has been no other.
- Michael Cunningham
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.
- Sri Aurobindo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
- Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sooner or later, at some point in your life, you’ll realize that money isn’t everything. Nor is happiness. No! We are not here to be happy. The aim of our life should be fulfilment. More than happiness, man seeks meaning. And when he finds it, his life becomes fulfilling.
- Abhaidev
The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who go with the flow, where destiny takes them, and those who fight their fate. While the formers are blessed with happiness, the latter achieve something far greater–fulfilment.
- Abhaidev
The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.
- Rodolfo Costa
Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
- Brandon Boyd
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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