Happiness Quotes

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

18390 quotes

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"I love myself when I am laughing, and then again, when I am looking mean and impressive."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"The only people who are really happy are the ones who do exactly what they want to do."
James Baldwin
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"Happiness comes not from having more, but from wanting less."
Pearl S. Buck
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"We are responsible for our own happiness."
Pearl S. Buck
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"The pleasures of eating, of sexuality, of winning, of recognition are delightful, centripetal experiences that pull us deeper into ourselves."
John Steinbeck
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"When a man is happy he doesn't hear the clock strike."
John Steinbeck
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"Happiness is found in simple things."
William Faulkner
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"Happiness is found in simple things and small moments of connection."
Langston Hughes
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Ernest Hemingway
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"Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is good."
Ernest Hemingway
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"Life is too short to be boring."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Isn't it funny how you never realize how unhappy you've been until you're happy."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"I love myself when I am laughing."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"One day, to everyone's surprise, including my own, I fell in love."
James Baldwin
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"Our real duty is to be happy, for happiness is itself a duty."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Success is getting what you want; happiness is liking what you get."
Sinclair Lewis
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"The secret to happiness is low expectations."
Sinclair Lewis
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"The great joy in life is finding one's own particular function in this universe."
John Steinbeck
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Ernest Hemingway
"The pursuit of happiness is the source of unhappiness."
Theodore Dreiser
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"Materialism is the enemy of genuine happiness."
Pearl S. Buck
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"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."
Edith Wharton
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"I am not sure that I have ever really known a happy man."
Edith Wharton
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"Those who believe that happiness can be increased by material acquisitions are spiritually empty."
Edith Wharton
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"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Edith Wharton
"That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great."
Willa Cather
"One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance."
Willa Cather
"That is the highest happiness I have known."
Willa Cather
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"The greatest joys in life come from the simplest of things."
Sinclair Lewis
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"Happiness is not achievement; it is the absence of desire unfulfilled."
Sinclair Lewis