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 never seen anybody as glad as he was."
Huckleberry Finn
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"It's lovely to live on a raft."
Huckleberry Finn
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"The best time was floating down the river."
Huckleberry Finn
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"I ain't gon cry no more. I'm gon laugh instead."
Celie
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"She doesn't know if she is happy or not."
Offred
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"It never really occurred to me that I might one day look back on the Cottages as the best time of my life."
Kathy H.
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"I was completely content there."
Kathy H.
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"We was free and satisfied."
Huckleberry Finn
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved for ourselves."
Cosette
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"You deserve to be happy."
Mariam
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"It's lovely to live on a raft."
Jim
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"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."
Jean Valjean
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"I never knew what it meant to be happy."
Celie
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"It's lovely to live on a raft."
Huckleberry Finn
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"I felt considerable mighty fine."
Huckleberry Finn
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"Happiness is a luxury that cannot be afforded by those in the margins."
The Narrator (omniscient)
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"Enjoy the present moment."
Fantine
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"I be so happy if I ever am happy, I forget everything else."
Celie
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"I finally happy."
Celie
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"We said there warn't no home like a raft"
Huckleberry Finn
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"It's lovely to live on a raft."
Huckleberry Finn
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"She had learned that happiness was a fleeting visitor."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"Her feet were bare in the grass, and she never felt so alive."
Death
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"I have learned to take what joy I can"
Circe
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"No, not rich. I am a happy man."
Florentino Ariza
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"She understood that paradise was not a place but an instant."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"What a great thing it is to make two people happy."
Cosette
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"The pursuit of perfection is the enemy of happiness"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"They built their happiness on the rubble of their past sorrows."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"To be happy is not to be free from pain, but to be superior to it."
Jean Valjean