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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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You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.
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count no man happy until he be dead.
- Solon
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Do not presume that richness or poorness will bring you happiness.
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To pursue happiness for its own sake is the surest way to lose it.
- George Roche
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Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.
- Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
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We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.
- Ayn Rand
Anthem
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How can one explain this trend towards a more colorless and shallow life? Well, the work was easier, if less healthy, and it brought in more money, more leisure, and perhaps more entertainment. A day in the country is long and hard. And yet the fruits of their present life were worthless compared to a single coin of their former life: a rest in the evening and a rural festivity. That they no longer knew the old kind of happiness was obvious from the discontentment which spread over their features. Soon dissatisfaction, prevailing over all their other moods, became their religion.
- Ernst Jünger
The Glass Bees
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The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.
- L.M. Montgomery
Anne's House of Dreams
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Declare your emotional independence—your happiness is your own responsibility and so it is for everyone else.
- M.J. Ryan
The Happiness Makeover: How to Teach Yourself to Be Happy and Enjoy Every Day
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Hold tight to the joys that make you smile, and never let them go.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
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The happiest people are not those who have it all, but those who turn all they have into enough.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
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Your relationships are shaped by two forces: who you choose to be and what you choose to accept.
- Jason Nelson
A Balm for Your Soul: The Six Seeds of Happiness
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The messages we internalize, that we should be hotter, richer, more fulfilled, only increase our feelings of inadequacy.... The search for total happiness leads to unhappiness.
- Jennifer Welch
Life Is a Lazy Susan of Sh*t Sandwiches
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When you stop taking things personally, their power dissolves.

(Tomato — The Game that Changes Everything)
- Bea Roubo
Joy Is the Key and You Are the Door
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That girl's happiness is everyone's happiness.
- Natsuki Takaya
Fruits Basket Collector's Edition, Vol. 10
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Your relationships are shaped by two forces: who you choose to be and what you choose to accept.
- Jason Nelson
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On the street, cars hurtled toward their destinations in a symphony of sound. Trees lined the pavement in a powerful show of survival: here they stood in this urban landscape, long-limbed and capable. And green, so green, sunlight pierced through their leaves and marked the concrete with dappled grays. I made my way home to my family, one among a million travelers crossing the city’s
great canvas in quick strokes. Everywhere there were colors by the thousands—tint upon tint, shade after shade—of everything the spectrum of beauty satisfied. Everywhere, there were signs of the renewal and restoration of life.
- Stephanie Dupal
The Kindness of Terrible People and Other Stories
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May you always have a beautiful soul with a fierce demeanor & a curiosity to know.
- Nancy Lavoie
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Happiness was frail and flimsy: a petal, a whisper. Hardship was constant. It was muscular and loud. Only fools forgot this vital fact, her face explained. Only fools failed to let it guide their every waking thought and deed.
- Xenobe Purvis
The Hounding
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Afterward she remembered the times when she had felt the happiest. The first time was when she and Dick danced together and she felt her beauty sparkling bright against his tall, strong form as they floated, hovering like people in an amusing dream—he turned her here and there with such a delicacy of suggestion that she was like a bright bouquet, a piece of precious cloth being displayed before fifty eyes.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
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Down the narrow trail
to the sound of sea lions
barking their belonging,
we wandered into their world,
the one we thought was ours.
- Don Hynes
Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
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Look around you. Try to be patient. Make space for the good stuff.
- Fearne Cotton
Happy: Finding Joy in Every Day and Letting Go of Perfect
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Thus, what Moses yearned for is satisfied by the very things which leave his desire unsatisfied.
- Gregory of Nyssa
The Life of Moses
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There were times it made one happy to be a fool. It made you feel that you were driving straight back into the past.
- L.M. Montgomery
The Blythes Are Quoted
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You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.
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count no man happy until he be dead.
- Solon
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Do not presume that richness or poorness will bring you happiness.
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To pursue happiness for its own sake is the surest way to lose it.
- George Roche
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Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.
- Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
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We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.
- Ayn Rand
Anthem
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How can one explain this trend towards a more colorless and shallow life? Well, the work was easier, if less healthy, and it brought in more money, more leisure, and perhaps more entertainment. A day in the country is long and hard. And yet the fruits of their present life were worthless compared to a single coin of their former life: a rest in the evening and a rural festivity. That they no longer knew the old kind of happiness was obvious from the discontentment which spread over their features. Soon dissatisfaction, prevailing over all their other moods, became their religion.
- Ernst Jünger
The Glass Bees
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The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.
- L.M. Montgomery
Anne's House of Dreams
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Declare your emotional independence—your happiness is your own responsibility and so it is for everyone else.
- M.J. Ryan
The Happiness Makeover: How to Teach Yourself to Be Happy and Enjoy Every Day
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hold tight to the joys that make you smile, and never let them go.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The happiest people are not those who have it all, but those who turn all they have into enough.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your relationships are shaped by two forces: who you choose to be and what you choose to accept.
- Jason Nelson
A Balm for Your Soul: The Six Seeds of Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The messages we internalize, that we should be hotter, richer, more fulfilled, only increase our feelings of inadequacy.... The search for total happiness leads to unhappiness.
- Jennifer Welch
Life Is a Lazy Susan of Sh*t Sandwiches
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you stop taking things personally, their power dissolves.

(Tomato — The Game that Changes Everything)
- Bea Roubo
Joy Is the Key and You Are the Door
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That girl's happiness is everyone's happiness.
- Natsuki Takaya
Fruits Basket Collector's Edition, Vol. 10
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your relationships are shaped by two forces: who you choose to be and what you choose to accept.
- Jason Nelson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On the street, cars hurtled toward their destinations in a symphony of sound. Trees lined the pavement in a powerful show of survival: here they stood in this urban landscape, long-limbed and capable. And green, so green, sunlight pierced through their leaves and marked the concrete with dappled grays. I made my way home to my family, one among a million travelers crossing the city’s
great canvas in quick strokes. Everywhere there were colors by the thousands—tint upon tint, shade after shade—of everything the spectrum of beauty satisfied. Everywhere, there were signs of the renewal and restoration of life.
- Stephanie Dupal
The Kindness of Terrible People and Other Stories
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May you always have a beautiful soul with a fierce demeanor & a curiosity to know.
- Nancy Lavoie
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Happiness was frail and flimsy: a petal, a whisper. Hardship was constant. It was muscular and loud. Only fools forgot this vital fact, her face explained. Only fools failed to let it guide their every waking thought and deed.
- Xenobe Purvis
The Hounding
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Afterward she remembered the times when she had felt the happiest. The first time was when she and Dick danced together and she felt her beauty sparkling bright against his tall, strong form as they floated, hovering like people in an amusing dream—he turned her here and there with such a delicacy of suggestion that she was like a bright bouquet, a piece of precious cloth being displayed before fifty eyes.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
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Down the narrow trail
to the sound of sea lions
barking their belonging,
we wandered into their world,
the one we thought was ours.
- Don Hynes
Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Look around you. Try to be patient. Make space for the good stuff.
- Fearne Cotton
Happy: Finding Joy in Every Day and Letting Go of Perfect
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Thus, what Moses yearned for is satisfied by the very things which leave his desire unsatisfied.
- Gregory of Nyssa
The Life of Moses
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There were times it made one happy to be a fool. It made you feel that you were driving straight back into the past.
- L.M. Montgomery
The Blythes Are Quoted
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
count no man happy until he be dead.
- Solon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do not presume that richness or poorness will bring you happiness.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To pursue happiness for its own sake is the surest way to lose it.
- George Roche
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.
- Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.
- Ayn Rand
Anthem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How can one explain this trend towards a more colorless and shallow life? Well, the work was easier, if less healthy, and it brought in more money, more leisure, and perhaps more entertainment. A day in the country is long and hard. And yet the fruits of their present life were worthless compared to a single coin of their former life: a rest in the evening and a rural festivity. That they no longer knew the old kind of happiness was obvious from the discontentment which spread over their features. Soon dissatisfaction, prevailing over all their other moods, became their religion.
- Ernst Jünger
The Glass Bees
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.
- L.M. Montgomery
Anne's House of Dreams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Declare your emotional independence—your happiness is your own responsibility and so it is for everyone else.
- M.J. Ryan
The Happiness Makeover: How to Teach Yourself to Be Happy and Enjoy Every Day
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hold tight to the joys that make you smile, and never let them go.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The happiest people are not those who have it all, but those who turn all they have into enough.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your relationships are shaped by two forces: who you choose to be and what you choose to accept.
- Jason Nelson
A Balm for Your Soul: The Six Seeds of Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The messages we internalize, that we should be hotter, richer, more fulfilled, only increase our feelings of inadequacy.... The search for total happiness leads to unhappiness.
- Jennifer Welch
Life Is a Lazy Susan of Sh*t Sandwiches
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you stop taking things personally, their power dissolves.

(Tomato — The Game that Changes Everything)
- Bea Roubo
Joy Is the Key and You Are the Door
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That girl's happiness is everyone's happiness.
- Natsuki Takaya
Fruits Basket Collector's Edition, Vol. 10
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your relationships are shaped by two forces: who you choose to be and what you choose to accept.
- Jason Nelson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On the street, cars hurtled toward their destinations in a symphony of sound. Trees lined the pavement in a powerful show of survival: here they stood in this urban landscape, long-limbed and capable. And green, so green, sunlight pierced through their leaves and marked the concrete with dappled grays. I made my way home to my family, one among a million travelers crossing the city’s
great canvas in quick strokes. Everywhere there were colors by the thousands—tint upon tint, shade after shade—of everything the spectrum of beauty satisfied. Everywhere, there were signs of the renewal and restoration of life.
- Stephanie Dupal
The Kindness of Terrible People and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
May you always have a beautiful soul with a fierce demeanor & a curiosity to know.
- Nancy Lavoie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness was frail and flimsy: a petal, a whisper. Hardship was constant. It was muscular and loud. Only fools forgot this vital fact, her face explained. Only fools failed to let it guide their every waking thought and deed.
- Xenobe Purvis
The Hounding
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Afterward she remembered the times when she had felt the happiest. The first time was when she and Dick danced together and she felt her beauty sparkling bright against his tall, strong form as they floated, hovering like people in an amusing dream—he turned her here and there with such a delicacy of suggestion that she was like a bright bouquet, a piece of precious cloth being displayed before fifty eyes.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Down the narrow trail
to the sound of sea lions
barking their belonging,
we wandered into their world,
the one we thought was ours.
- Don Hynes
Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Look around you. Try to be patient. Make space for the good stuff.
- Fearne Cotton
Happy: Finding Joy in Every Day and Letting Go of Perfect
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Thus, what Moses yearned for is satisfied by the very things which leave his desire unsatisfied.
- Gregory of Nyssa
The Life of Moses
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There were times it made one happy to be a fool. It made you feel that you were driving straight back into the past.
- L.M. Montgomery
The Blythes Are Quoted
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