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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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Why sadness was created?
So we could rest from laughing.
- Nelson M. Lubao
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An ardent desire to go took possession of me once more. Not because I wanted to leave - I was quite all right on this Cretan coast, and felt happy and free there and I needed nothing - but because I have always been consumed with one desire; to touch and see as much as possible of the earth and the sea before I die.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba the Greek
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They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions' who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls.
- E.M. Forster
Maurice
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What need is there to say more?
The childish work for their own benefit,
The Buddhas work for the benefit of others.
Just look at the difference between them.

If I do not exchange my happiness, for the suffering of others, I shall not attain the state of Buddhahood.
And even in Samsara I shall have no real joy.

The source of all misery in the world lies in thinking of oneself;
The source of all happiness lies in thinking of others.
- Shantideva
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What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?
- Justina Chen Headley
North of Beautiful
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I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy people.
- Rachel Machacek
The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love
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We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.
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Your first purpose is to find a purpose for yourself. And your second purpose must not immediately be trying to reach that purpose you found but to investigate thoroughly whether that purpose is really necessary for yourself or whether it is worth at all to struggle for it! Because millions are fighting for a purpose which will in no way make them happy at the end!
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Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.
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Since I grew weary of the search
I taught myself to find instead
Since cross winds caused my ship to lurch
I sail with all winds straight ahead.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy.
- Ian McEwan
Sweet Tooth
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I like how Mother Teresa put it: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile." If you approach life this way, always looking for ways to build instead of to tear down, you'll be amazed at how much happiness you can give to others and find for yourself
- Sean Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
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If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...
- William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing
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For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.
- Emma Donoghue
Slammerkin
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We were so happy.
- Liane Moriarty
What Alice Forgot
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Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.
- Iimani David
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How to Find Your Joylah

1. Try new things
2. Be open to new friends
3. Visit new places
4. Listen to new ideas
5. Remember each day is a new day
6. And it's really no big deal if beads get mixed up every once in a while
- Elizabeth Atkinson
I, Emma Freke
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You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them.
- Francesca Marciano
Casa Rossa
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The only thing unqualifiedly good in this world is a good will - the will to follow the moral law, regardless of profit or loss for ourselves.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

"Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."

Let us seek the happiness in others; but for ourselves, perfection - whether it bring us happiness or pain.
- Will Durant
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
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Many people will tell that it is not for a man to cry, but they may not know how is to feel your head empty and only tears will come out to stand up for you.
- John Zea
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Best Way to Stay Happy is to be busy.
- Dipika Agarwal
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True, sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between authentic anger and bullshit and that’s why the following exercise is designed to help you express your resentments with integrity, and not with demoralizing bullshit
- Will Jelbert
The Happiness Animal
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There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.
- Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.
- Roger Zelazny
Threshold
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why sadness was created?
So we could rest from laughing.
- Nelson M. Lubao
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
An ardent desire to go took possession of me once more. Not because I wanted to leave - I was quite all right on this Cretan coast, and felt happy and free there and I needed nothing - but because I have always been consumed with one desire; to touch and see as much as possible of the earth and the sea before I die.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba the Greek
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions' who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls.
- E.M. Forster
Maurice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What need is there to say more?
The childish work for their own benefit,
The Buddhas work for the benefit of others.
Just look at the difference between them.

If I do not exchange my happiness, for the suffering of others, I shall not attain the state of Buddhahood.
And even in Samsara I shall have no real joy.

The source of all misery in the world lies in thinking of oneself;
The source of all happiness lies in thinking of others.
- Shantideva
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?
- Justina Chen Headley
North of Beautiful
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy people.
- Rachel Machacek
The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your first purpose is to find a purpose for yourself. And your second purpose must not immediately be trying to reach that purpose you found but to investigate thoroughly whether that purpose is really necessary for yourself or whether it is worth at all to struggle for it! Because millions are fighting for a purpose which will in no way make them happy at the end!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Since I grew weary of the search
I taught myself to find instead
Since cross winds caused my ship to lurch
I sail with all winds straight ahead.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy.
- Ian McEwan
Sweet Tooth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I like how Mother Teresa put it: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile." If you approach life this way, always looking for ways to build instead of to tear down, you'll be amazed at how much happiness you can give to others and find for yourself
- Sean Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...
- William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.
- Emma Donoghue
Slammerkin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We were so happy.
- Liane Moriarty
What Alice Forgot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.
- Iimani David
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How to Find Your Joylah

1. Try new things
2. Be open to new friends
3. Visit new places
4. Listen to new ideas
5. Remember each day is a new day
6. And it's really no big deal if beads get mixed up every once in a while
- Elizabeth Atkinson
I, Emma Freke
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them.
- Francesca Marciano
Casa Rossa
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only thing unqualifiedly good in this world is a good will - the will to follow the moral law, regardless of profit or loss for ourselves.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

"Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."

Let us seek the happiness in others; but for ourselves, perfection - whether it bring us happiness or pain.
- Will Durant
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many people will tell that it is not for a man to cry, but they may not know how is to feel your head empty and only tears will come out to stand up for you.
- John Zea
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Best Way to Stay Happy is to be busy.
- Dipika Agarwal
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
True, sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between authentic anger and bullshit and that’s why the following exercise is designed to help you express your resentments with integrity, and not with demoralizing bullshit
- Will Jelbert
The Happiness Animal
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.
- Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.
- Roger Zelazny
Threshold
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why sadness was created?
So we could rest from laughing.
- Nelson M. Lubao
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
An ardent desire to go took possession of me once more. Not because I wanted to leave - I was quite all right on this Cretan coast, and felt happy and free there and I needed nothing - but because I have always been consumed with one desire; to touch and see as much as possible of the earth and the sea before I die.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba the Greek
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions' who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls.
- E.M. Forster
Maurice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What need is there to say more?
The childish work for their own benefit,
The Buddhas work for the benefit of others.
Just look at the difference between them.

If I do not exchange my happiness, for the suffering of others, I shall not attain the state of Buddhahood.
And even in Samsara I shall have no real joy.

The source of all misery in the world lies in thinking of oneself;
The source of all happiness lies in thinking of others.
- Shantideva
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?
- Justina Chen Headley
North of Beautiful
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy people.
- Rachel Machacek
The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your first purpose is to find a purpose for yourself. And your second purpose must not immediately be trying to reach that purpose you found but to investigate thoroughly whether that purpose is really necessary for yourself or whether it is worth at all to struggle for it! Because millions are fighting for a purpose which will in no way make them happy at the end!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Since I grew weary of the search
I taught myself to find instead
Since cross winds caused my ship to lurch
I sail with all winds straight ahead.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy.
- Ian McEwan
Sweet Tooth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I like how Mother Teresa put it: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile." If you approach life this way, always looking for ways to build instead of to tear down, you'll be amazed at how much happiness you can give to others and find for yourself
- Sean Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...
- William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.
- Emma Donoghue
Slammerkin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We were so happy.
- Liane Moriarty
What Alice Forgot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.
- Iimani David
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How to Find Your Joylah

1. Try new things
2. Be open to new friends
3. Visit new places
4. Listen to new ideas
5. Remember each day is a new day
6. And it's really no big deal if beads get mixed up every once in a while
- Elizabeth Atkinson
I, Emma Freke
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them.
- Francesca Marciano
Casa Rossa
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only thing unqualifiedly good in this world is a good will - the will to follow the moral law, regardless of profit or loss for ourselves.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

"Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."

Let us seek the happiness in others; but for ourselves, perfection - whether it bring us happiness or pain.
- Will Durant
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many people will tell that it is not for a man to cry, but they may not know how is to feel your head empty and only tears will come out to stand up for you.
- John Zea
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Best Way to Stay Happy is to be busy.
- Dipika Agarwal
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
True, sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between authentic anger and bullshit and that’s why the following exercise is designed to help you express your resentments with integrity, and not with demoralizing bullshit
- Will Jelbert
The Happiness Animal
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.
- Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.
- Roger Zelazny
Threshold
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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