Happiness Quotes

Is it a destination or a practice? These quotes explore the most sought-after human experience.

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"A society in which consuming has become the main form of happiness is not a happy society."
Ezra Pound
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"All work and no play makes Jack an unhappy companion."
Ezra Pound
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"It is nice to have accomplishments and to know about them, but the real thing is always to have a kind of overflow of feeling that is always ready to come out."
Gertrude Stein
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"I always say that if you are not pleasing yourself, then you are not pleasing anybody."
Gertrude Stein
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"Happiness is found in the simple moments of life, fully savored."
Booth Tarkington
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"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
Robert Frost
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"I would have written of me as one who loved his life."
Robert Frost
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"Play is whatever a body is not obliged to do."
Robert Frost
"Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get."
Carl Sandburg
"Happiness comes from within, not from external circumstances."
Sherwood Anderson
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"The pursuit of happiness often costs more than happiness itself."
Booth Tarkington
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"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
Robert Frost
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"A poet dares to be just so happy."
Robert Frost
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"One must dare to be happy."
Gertrude Stein
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"She had a good time and then some."
Gertrude Stein
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"What is the use of being alive if you don't mind the living."
Gertrude Stein
"Do you know the secret of the truly happy? It is a clear conscience or none at all."
Carl Sandburg
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"Happiness is found in purpose and community."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Happiness is in the doing."
Toni Cade Bambara
"Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like nobody's watching."
Maya Angelou
"Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live."
Maya Angelou
"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry."
Maya Angelou
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"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."
Alice Walker
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"Life is better when you're laughing."
Alice Walker
"Happiness is found in the simple acts of living fully."
Carl Sandburg
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"The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment."
Robert Frost
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"A man's paradise is his good nature."
Ezra Pound
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"Resistance is the secret of joy."
Alice Walker
"I've learned that everybody wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness comes from climbing."
Maya Angelou
"Happiness comes from within, not from without."
Carl Sandburg