Happiness Quotes
Is it a destination or a practice? These quotes explore the most sought-after human experience.
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"I love myself when I am laughing, and then again, when I am looking mean and impressive."Zora Neale Hurston
"The only people who are really happy are the ones who do exactly what they want to do."James Baldwin
"Happiness comes not from having more, but from wanting less."Pearl S. Buck
"We are responsible for our own happiness."Pearl S. Buck
"The pleasures of eating, of sexuality, of winning, of recognition are delightful, centripetal experiences that pull us deeper into ourselves."John Steinbeck
"When a man is happy he doesn't hear the clock strike."John Steinbeck
"Happiness is found in simple things."William Faulkner
"Happiness is found in simple things and small moments of connection."Langston Hughes
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."Ernest Hemingway
"Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is good."Ernest Hemingway
"Life is too short to be boring."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Isn't it funny how you never realize how unhappy you've been until you're happy."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I love myself when I am laughing."Zora Neale Hurston
"One day, to everyone's surprise, including my own, I fell in love."James Baldwin
"Our real duty is to be happy, for happiness is itself a duty."Pearl S. Buck
"Success is getting what you want; happiness is liking what you get."Sinclair Lewis
"The secret to happiness is low expectations."Sinclair Lewis
"The great joy in life is finding one's own particular function in this universe."John Steinbeck
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."Ernest Hemingway
"The pursuit of happiness is the source of unhappiness."Theodore Dreiser
"Materialism is the enemy of genuine happiness."Pearl S. Buck
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."Edith Wharton
"I am not sure that I have ever really known a happy man."Edith Wharton
"Those who believe that happiness can be increased by material acquisitions are spiritually empty."Edith Wharton
"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
"The greatest joys in life come from the simplest of things."Sinclair Lewis
"Happiness is not achievement; it is the absence of desire unfulfilled."Sinclair Lewis