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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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Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.
Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?
Probably not. Why would you? Well, listen.
All mortals owe a debt to death.
There's no one alive
who can say if he will be tomorrow.
Our fate moves invisibly! A mystery.
No one can teach it, no one can grasp it.
Accept this! Cheer up! Have a drink!
But don't forget Aphrodite--that's one sweet goddess.
You can let the rest go. Am I making sense?
I think so. How about a drink.
Put on a garland. I'm sure
the happy splash of wine will cure your mood.
We're all mortal you know. Think mortal.
Because my theory is, there's no such thing as life,
it's just catastrophe.
- Anne Carson
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
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Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
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Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
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I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.
- Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
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I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba the Greek
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I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
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Ester asked why people are sad.
"That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.
- Paulo Coelho
The Zahir
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
- Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca
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I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
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I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
- Drew Barrymore
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Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
- Marianne Williamson
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And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.
- J.D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey
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Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.
- Katherine Mansfield
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Dalai Lama XIV
The Art of Happiness
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The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.
- Gretchen Rubin
The Happiness Project
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You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
- Melissa de la Cruz
The Van Alen Legacy
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Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.
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Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
- Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Love is too precious to be ashamed of.
- Laurell K. Hamilton
A Stroke of Midnight
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Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- H.L. Mencken
A Mencken Chrestomathy
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A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
In the Words of Napoleon: A Collection of Quotations of Napoleon Bonaparte
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In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe that they are living that golden instant "now," even having lived such a moment before, but whatever they say, in one part of their hearts they still believe in the certainty of a happier moment to come. Because how could anyone, and particularly anyone who is still young, carry on with the belief that everything could only get worse: If a person is happy enough to think he has reached the happiest moment of his life, he will be hopeful enough to believe his future will be just as beautiful, more so.
- Orhan Pamuk
The Museum of Innocence
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Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.
Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?
Probably not. Why would you? Well, listen.
All mortals owe a debt to death.
There's no one alive
who can say if he will be tomorrow.
Our fate moves invisibly! A mystery.
No one can teach it, no one can grasp it.
Accept this! Cheer up! Have a drink!
But don't forget Aphrodite--that's one sweet goddess.
You can let the rest go. Am I making sense?
I think so. How about a drink.
Put on a garland. I'm sure
the happy splash of wine will cure your mood.
We're all mortal you know. Think mortal.
Because my theory is, there's no such thing as life,
it's just catastrophe.
- Anne Carson
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.
- Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba the Greek
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ester asked why people are sad.
"That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.
- Paulo Coelho
The Zahir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
- Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
- Drew Barrymore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
- Marianne Williamson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.
- J.D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.
- Katherine Mansfield
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Dalai Lama XIV
The Art of Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.
- Gretchen Rubin
The Happiness Project
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
- Melissa de la Cruz
The Van Alen Legacy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
- Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is too precious to be ashamed of.
- Laurell K. Hamilton
A Stroke of Midnight
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- H.L. Mencken
A Mencken Chrestomathy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
In the Words of Napoleon: A Collection of Quotations of Napoleon Bonaparte
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe that they are living that golden instant "now," even having lived such a moment before, but whatever they say, in one part of their hearts they still believe in the certainty of a happier moment to come. Because how could anyone, and particularly anyone who is still young, carry on with the belief that everything could only get worse: If a person is happy enough to think he has reached the happiest moment of his life, he will be hopeful enough to believe his future will be just as beautiful, more so.
- Orhan Pamuk
The Museum of Innocence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.
Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?
Probably not. Why would you? Well, listen.
All mortals owe a debt to death.
There's no one alive
who can say if he will be tomorrow.
Our fate moves invisibly! A mystery.
No one can teach it, no one can grasp it.
Accept this! Cheer up! Have a drink!
But don't forget Aphrodite--that's one sweet goddess.
You can let the rest go. Am I making sense?
I think so. How about a drink.
Put on a garland. I'm sure
the happy splash of wine will cure your mood.
We're all mortal you know. Think mortal.
Because my theory is, there's no such thing as life,
it's just catastrophe.
- Anne Carson
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.
- Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba the Greek
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ester asked why people are sad.
"That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.
- Paulo Coelho
The Zahir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
- Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
- Drew Barrymore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
- Marianne Williamson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.
- J.D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.
- Katherine Mansfield
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Dalai Lama XIV
The Art of Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.
- Gretchen Rubin
The Happiness Project
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
- Melissa de la Cruz
The Van Alen Legacy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
- Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is too precious to be ashamed of.
- Laurell K. Hamilton
A Stroke of Midnight
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- H.L. Mencken
A Mencken Chrestomathy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
In the Words of Napoleon: A Collection of Quotations of Napoleon Bonaparte
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe that they are living that golden instant "now," even having lived such a moment before, but whatever they say, in one part of their hearts they still believe in the certainty of a happier moment to come. Because how could anyone, and particularly anyone who is still young, carry on with the belief that everything could only get worse: If a person is happy enough to think he has reached the happiest moment of his life, he will be hopeful enough to believe his future will be just as beautiful, more so.
- Orhan Pamuk
The Museum of Innocence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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