Happiness Quotes

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

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"The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist"
Lord Byron
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"The great object of life is sensation, in its broadest sense"
Lord Byron
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"The great object of life is sensation, not mere existence"
Lord Byron
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"The great object of life is sensation, properly conceived"
Lord Byron
"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition."
Mary Shelley
"The pursuit of happiness often prevents its attainment."
Mary Shelley
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"The supreme happiness is to think that one is loved."
Victor Hugo
"I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."
Jane Austen
"There is a great truth in the observation that 'it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number.'"
Jane Austen
"Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success."
William Wordsworth
"Happiness is found in appreciation of simple things."
William Wordsworth
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"The great secret of happiness is moderation."
Lord Byron
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"Happiness is found in the smallest moments, not the grandest stages."
Lord Byron
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"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design into the present."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"The pursuit of happiness is worthier than happiness itself."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors."
John Keats
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"True happiness consists in virtue."
John Milton
"Exultation is the going of one more than dancing joy."
William Wordsworth
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"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life"
William Shakespeare
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"I am not merry, but I am light."
Lord Byron
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"There are few things that cloud the memory more than the want of happiness."
Lord Byron
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"If you would be happy for an hour, get drunk; for a week, get married; for life, get a garden."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"The happiness which is lacking makes one think of the happiness which remains."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Happiness is not a destination but a choice made moment by moment."
John Milton
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"Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather."
John Keats
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"I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy."
John Keats
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"Sorrow is the child of too much joy."
Lord Byron
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"Some pursue happiness, others create it."
Lord Byron
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"Happiness is the consequence of virtue, not its reward."
Dante Alighieri