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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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The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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Should happiness and success be hidden, in view of the misery and poverty around. Would it be a sign of selfishness and un-intellectual behavior, if we admit to a pursuit of happiness? Could it, on the contrary, not work out as a motivation and an incentive? When giving voice to our happiness, could it not be perceived as a positive challenge? Could happiness not be contagious and become a salutary infectious syndrome? A beneficial infection. ( "Happy days are back again" )
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Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
- Daniel Kahneman
Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology
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Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often.
- Ruskin Bond
A Little Book of Life
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The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy.
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Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
- Elise Boulding
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And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.
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The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.
- Dalai Lama XIV
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
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I would tell you stories from dawn to dusk if it meant filling your eyes with happiness.
- Elizabeth Lim
Six Crimson Cranes
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When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.
- Vincent Starrett
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Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
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The greatest thing about dreams is they don’t expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new.
- Casi McLean
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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ‘em, join ‘em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1
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Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.
- Algernon D. Black
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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I'm a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit!
- Sharon Swan
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They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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Happy people know suffering more than anyone else, and that’s how they can see just how damn beautiful their lives are. It’s because they’ve seen the depths.
- Brianna Wiest
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
- Andre Gide
The Immoralist
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I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.
- Cristiano Ronaldo
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Marriage is just a piece of paper if it's not a happy one.
- Phil Lester
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The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.
- Dan Savage
Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
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Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.
- Aaron Lauritsen
100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
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Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive
- Aaron Lauritsen
100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
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The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Should happiness and success be hidden, in view of the misery and poverty around. Would it be a sign of selfishness and un-intellectual behavior, if we admit to a pursuit of happiness? Could it, on the contrary, not work out as a motivation and an incentive? When giving voice to our happiness, could it not be perceived as a positive challenge? Could happiness not be contagious and become a salutary infectious syndrome? A beneficial infection. ( "Happy days are back again" )
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
- Daniel Kahneman
Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often.
- Ruskin Bond
A Little Book of Life
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The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
- Elise Boulding
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.
- Dalai Lama XIV
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I would tell you stories from dawn to dusk if it meant filling your eyes with happiness.
- Elizabeth Lim
Six Crimson Cranes
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When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.
- Vincent Starrett
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The greatest thing about dreams is they don’t expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new.
- Casi McLean
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ‘em, join ‘em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.
- Algernon D. Black
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit!
- Sharon Swan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happy people know suffering more than anyone else, and that’s how they can see just how damn beautiful their lives are. It’s because they’ve seen the depths.
- Brianna Wiest
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
- Andre Gide
The Immoralist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.
- Cristiano Ronaldo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Marriage is just a piece of paper if it's not a happy one.
- Phil Lester
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.
- Dan Savage
Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.
- Aaron Lauritsen
100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive
- Aaron Lauritsen
100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Should happiness and success be hidden, in view of the misery and poverty around. Would it be a sign of selfishness and un-intellectual behavior, if we admit to a pursuit of happiness? Could it, on the contrary, not work out as a motivation and an incentive? When giving voice to our happiness, could it not be perceived as a positive challenge? Could happiness not be contagious and become a salutary infectious syndrome? A beneficial infection. ( "Happy days are back again" )
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
- Daniel Kahneman
Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often.
- Ruskin Bond
A Little Book of Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
- Elise Boulding
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.
- Dalai Lama XIV
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I would tell you stories from dawn to dusk if it meant filling your eyes with happiness.
- Elizabeth Lim
Six Crimson Cranes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.
- Vincent Starrett
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The greatest thing about dreams is they don’t expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new.
- Casi McLean
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ‘em, join ‘em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.
- Algernon D. Black
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit!
- Sharon Swan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happy people know suffering more than anyone else, and that’s how they can see just how damn beautiful their lives are. It’s because they’ve seen the depths.
- Brianna Wiest
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
- Andre Gide
The Immoralist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.
- Cristiano Ronaldo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Marriage is just a piece of paper if it's not a happy one.
- Phil Lester
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.
- Dan Savage
Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.
- Aaron Lauritsen
100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive
- Aaron Lauritsen
100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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