Happiness Quotes

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

18390 quotes

"Happiness is found not in the accumulation of things, but in the richness of experience."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance, and good humor is the sunshine of the soul."
Washington Irving
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"I taste a liquor never brewed in any Tavern."
Emily Dickinson
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"Happiness is the echo of a life well-lived."
Edgar Allan Poe
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
Mark Twain
"The only truly happy people are children and the insane."
Mark Twain
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."
Walt Whitman
"I exist as I am, that is enough."
Walt Whitman
"Do anything, but let it produce joy."
Walt Whitman
"I know that pleasure and freedom, the essentials of health."
Walt Whitman
"The pursuit of happiness often blinds us to happiness itself."
James Fenimore Cooper
"The harmony of a well-ordered life brings more joy than any external circumstance."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I taste a liquor never brewed from tankards sipped in halls of bloom."
Emily Dickinson
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"Take all away from me but leave me ecstasy."
Emily Dickinson
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"Happiness is found in the smallest rooms of the largest hearts."
Emily Dickinson
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"A cheerful demeanor is the mark of a good man and a good Christian."
Washington Irving
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"The pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of virtue; they are inseparable."
Washington Irving
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Mark Twain
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
Mark Twain
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"To live is to have sorrow; to seek happiness is to court disappointment."
Herman Melville
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"Happiness is not a destination but a way of traveling."
Herman Melville
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"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"All human beings desire to be happy."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"A man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is unaware of it."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"To know nothing is the happiest life."
Edgar Allan Poe
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
Ralph Waldo Emerson