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 wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I must learn to be content with being happy."
Jane Bennet
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"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Jane Eyre
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"I was happy until I began to despise myself."
Pip
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"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Jane Eyre
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"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures."
Jane Eyre
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"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Jane Eyre
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"I wish I could be cheerful in my thoughts as you are."
Pip
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"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Jane Eyre
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"I am the happiest creature in the world."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I have never been so near to being made happy, but that I have never been happy."
Pip
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"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Jane Eyre
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"But, once in my life, I had been happy!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Happiness hath not been our portion in this world"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Do I feel joy again? asked he within himself"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"I have never been so near happiness as I feel now."
Pip
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"I had never known happiness till now."
Pip
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"My mind was more agreeably engaged."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad."
Levin
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"There is something in the human heart which this prosperity cannot satisfy."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The pursuit of happiness is the root of all unhappiness."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"To be always thinking about your wants and needs is to live a life of misery."
Don Quixote
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"The greatest wealth is contentment."
Don Quixote
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"Happiness is found in small moments, not grand gestures."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"There is neither happiness nor misery in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another."
Edmond Dantès
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"I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed."
Jane Bennet
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"He is unhappy because he seeks happiness"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another"
Edmond Dantès
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"I have never been so near happiness."
Pip