Happiness Quotes

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

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"The moment of happiness is made precious precisely because it must end."
Anton Chekhov
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"The true joy of life is being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to think about whether you are happy or not."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
William Butler Yeats
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"The happiness of too many men in these centuries would pass away like a feather on the wind."
William Butler Yeats
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"Happiness is but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain."
Thomas Hardy
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"I can resist everything except temptation, and temptation is what makes life worth living."
Oscar Wilde
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"The true source of joy is spiritual contentment."
Oscar Wilde
"The best you can hope for is some kind of ecstasy."
Samuel Beckett
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"Happiness is found in the pursuit of meaningful goals."
James Joyce
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"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
Leo Tolstoy
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"If you want to be happy, be."
Leo Tolstoy
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"One of the first conditions for a happy life is that it should be a full life."
Leo Tolstoy
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"In the pursuit of happiness, do not forget to be happy."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."
George Eliot
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"The happiness of men depends upon wisdom and virtue."
George Eliot
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"Only the very fortunate will know happiness."
George Eliot
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"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Anne Brontë
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"I have had the happiness of an idea only upon the rarest occasions."
William Butler Yeats
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"Those that build them again are gay."
William Butler Yeats
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"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
William Butler Yeats
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"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Emily Brontë
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"The British do not expect happiness; I had the impression, all along, that they do not want to talk about it."
George Bernard Shaw
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"There is no duty we underrate so much as the duty of being happy."
Oscar Wilde
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"Those who seek happiness in material wealth will find only emptiness."
Anne Brontë
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"The pursuit of happiness often blinds us to the happiness already present."
Thomas Hardy
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"Happiness is a condition available only to those with short memories."
Thomas Hardy
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"The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones."
George Eliot
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"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."
George Eliot
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"Do you believe nothing happy ever comes to pass in the world?"
Emily Brontë