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 have had everything a man could have."
Billy Pilgrim
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"Everything is wonderful, absolutely wonderful."
Milo Minderbinder
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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery."
Bernard Marx
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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery."
Mustapha Mond
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"I'd rather be happy than dignified."
Lenina Crowne
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"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim
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"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"
Kurt Vonnegut
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"A man is happy when he is truly free."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments."
Lenina Crowne
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"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is'"
Kurt Vonnegut
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"The secret of happiness and virtue is liking what you've got to do"
Mustapha Mond
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"The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness. For the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better."
O'Brien
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"Happiness is a mirage"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Happiness lies not in virtue alone, but in the exercise of virtue"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"And that, he said, was the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do."
Mustapha Mond
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"The world's stable now. People are happy."
Lenina Crowne
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"Everybody's happy now."
Lenina Crowne
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"The choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better."
O'Brien
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"Happiness is a hard master"
Mustapha Mond
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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison"
Mustapha Mond
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"I'm happy now. I think I shall be happy"
Lenina Crowne
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"The world's stable now. People are happy."
Lenina Crowne
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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery."
Mustapha Mond
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"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim
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"An' I get to tend the rabbits."
Lennie Small
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"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"I've a right to be happy"
Lenina Crowne
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"Happiness and virtue used to be difficult virtues to attain"
Mustapha Mond
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"I'm happy now. I haven't been in a long time"
Bernard Marx
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"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him."
Pierre Bezukhov