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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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When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters.
- Dee Remy
There Once Was A Boy
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Topic: Happiness
Earthly contemplation means to the Christian, we have said, this above all: that behind all that we directly encounter the Face of the incarnate Logos becomes visible... Contemplation does not ignore the "historical Gethsemane," does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a true happiness, indeed the supreme happiness; but it is founded upon sorrow.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
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Topic: Happiness
My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable.
- Cicero
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy.
- Thornton Wilder
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher,
Although he was poor, did not want to be richer;
For all such vain wishes in him were prevented
By a fortunate habit of being contented.
- Jane Taylor
Original Poems For Infant Minds
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
XXX
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Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful, a tooth, as indolence.
Topic: Happiness
Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.
- Rashedur Ryan Rahman
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Philosophical, Relationships, Success
One thing I have come to realize is that love is not always happiness.
- Jerhia
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Relationships
... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.
- Marcel Proust
Swann’s Way
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
There is no higher happiness than peace.
- Jack Kornfield
The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
XXX
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Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Topic: Happiness
No child should ever be too sad to play.
- Andrew Galasetti
These Colors Don't Run
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.
- Aniruddha Sastikar
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
The happiest people don’t bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have.
- Andrew Matthews
Happiness in Hard Times
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Cosmic Ordering success sticks to you like mud to a blanket.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Success
The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.
- Criss Jami
Venus in Arms
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?
- Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Topic: Happiness
... each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal beatitude. Some connection, if only this: that every fulfillment this side of Heaven instantly reveals its inadequacy. It is immediately evident that such satisfactions are not enough; they are not what we have really sought; they cannot really satisfy us at all.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Ahora sabemos que las cosas buenas ocurren, que los sueños a veces se cumplen, que los deseos pueden hacerse realidad y de nosotros depende no olvidarlo para poder meterle un gol a esa portería invisible del día a día.
- Eugenia Rico
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
The root of your problem is not your past. The root of your problem is your perception of your past.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Wanting to play God first requires one to believe that there isn't any or that it is actually you, while claiming to represent God may very well be the next 'best' thing.
- Arne Klingenberg
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters.
- Dee Remy
There Once Was A Boy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Earthly contemplation means to the Christian, we have said, this above all: that behind all that we directly encounter the Face of the incarnate Logos becomes visible... Contemplation does not ignore the "historical Gethsemane," does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a true happiness, indeed the supreme happiness; but it is founded upon sorrow.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable.
- Cicero
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy.
- Thornton Wilder
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher,
Although he was poor, did not want to be richer;
For all such vain wishes in him were prevented
By a fortunate habit of being contented.
- Jane Taylor
Original Poems For Infant Minds
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful, a tooth, as indolence.
Topic: Happiness
Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.
- Rashedur Ryan Rahman
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Philosophical, Relationships, Success
One thing I have come to realize is that love is not always happiness.
- Jerhia
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Relationships
... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.
- Marcel Proust
Swann’s Way
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
There is no higher happiness than peace.
- Jack Kornfield
The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Topic: Happiness
No child should ever be too sad to play.
- Andrew Galasetti
These Colors Don't Run
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.
- Aniruddha Sastikar
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
The happiest people don’t bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have.
- Andrew Matthews
Happiness in Hard Times
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Cosmic Ordering success sticks to you like mud to a blanket.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Success
The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.
- Criss Jami
Venus in Arms
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?
- Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Topic: Happiness
... each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal beatitude. Some connection, if only this: that every fulfillment this side of Heaven instantly reveals its inadequacy. It is immediately evident that such satisfactions are not enough; they are not what we have really sought; they cannot really satisfy us at all.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Ahora sabemos que las cosas buenas ocurren, que los sueños a veces se cumplen, que los deseos pueden hacerse realidad y de nosotros depende no olvidarlo para poder meterle un gol a esa portería invisible del día a día.
- Eugenia Rico
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
The root of your problem is not your past. The root of your problem is your perception of your past.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Wanting to play God first requires one to believe that there isn't any or that it is actually you, while claiming to represent God may very well be the next 'best' thing.
- Arne Klingenberg
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters.
- Dee Remy
There Once Was A Boy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Earthly contemplation means to the Christian, we have said, this above all: that behind all that we directly encounter the Face of the incarnate Logos becomes visible... Contemplation does not ignore the "historical Gethsemane," does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a true happiness, indeed the supreme happiness; but it is founded upon sorrow.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable.
- Cicero
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy.
- Thornton Wilder
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher,
Although he was poor, did not want to be richer;
For all such vain wishes in him were prevented
By a fortunate habit of being contented.
- Jane Taylor
Original Poems For Infant Minds
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful, a tooth, as indolence.
Topic: Happiness
Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.
- Rashedur Ryan Rahman
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Philosophical, Relationships, Success
One thing I have come to realize is that love is not always happiness.
- Jerhia
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Relationships
... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.
- Marcel Proust
Swann’s Way
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
There is no higher happiness than peace.
- Jack Kornfield
The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Topic: Happiness
No child should ever be too sad to play.
- Andrew Galasetti
These Colors Don't Run
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.
- Aniruddha Sastikar
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
The happiest people don’t bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have.
- Andrew Matthews
Happiness in Hard Times
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Cosmic Ordering success sticks to you like mud to a blanket.
- Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Success
The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.
- Criss Jami
Venus in Arms
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?
- Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Topic: Happiness
... each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal beatitude. Some connection, if only this: that every fulfillment this side of Heaven instantly reveals its inadequacy. It is immediately evident that such satisfactions are not enough; they are not what we have really sought; they cannot really satisfy us at all.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Ahora sabemos que las cosas buenas ocurren, que los sueños a veces se cumplen, que los deseos pueden hacerse realidad y de nosotros depende no olvidarlo para poder meterle un gol a esa portería invisible del día a día.
- Eugenia Rico
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
The root of your problem is not your past. The root of your problem is your perception of your past.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Wanting to play God first requires one to believe that there isn't any or that it is actually you, while claiming to represent God may very well be the next 'best' thing.
- Arne Klingenberg
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
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