Happiness Quotes

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

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"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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"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better."
O'Brien
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"There is no greater happiness than to be understood"
Natasha Rostova
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"An' I get to tend the rabbits"
Lennie Small
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"An' I get to tend the rabbits"
Lennie Small
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"We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing."
Clarisse McClellan
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"People are having fun."
Mildred Montag
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"The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys."
Captain Beatty
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"People are having fun."
Mildred Montag
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"We are supposed to be happy."
Mildred Montag
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"The happiness is somewhere else."
Guy Montag
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"We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy."
Clarisse McClellan
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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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"Life on Tralfamadore was lovely."
Billy Pilgrim
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"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy."
Pierre Bezukhov
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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 choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better."
O'Brien
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"The pursuit of happiness often prevents happiness itself"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"The pursuit of happiness is less important than the pursuit of meaning"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure."
Victor Frankenstein
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"My creator, make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous"
The Creature
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"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition"
Victor Frankenstein
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"The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally"
Squealer
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"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim
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"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
Billy Pilgrim
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"The truest happiness lay in working hard and living frugally."
Squealer
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"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full."
Billy Pilgrim
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"For the first time in many months, I felt a sentiment of joy."
Victor Frankenstein