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Quotes About Happiness

Seek and spread joy through these uplifting quotes about happiness, fulfillment, and the simple pleasures all around us.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing — not just a waiting.

I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment.

You just can’t live in that negative way... make way for the positive day.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Washington Irving

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Bob Marley

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Edith Wharton

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Nobel Prize-winning French writer (1940-present)

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Bessie Anderson Stanley

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Jamaican reggae singer (1945-1981)

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Buddy Wakefield

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Charles Baudelaire

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Charlotte Brontë

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Christopher Moore

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Japanese Buddhist philosopher (1928-2023)

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David Steindl-Rast

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Emily Dickinson

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Fernando Pessoa

Flannery O'Connor

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Gabrielle Zevin

George Santayana

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Henry David Thoreau

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J.J. van der Leeuw

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Jamie Lee Curtis

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Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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Russian author (1828-1910)

Ludwig van Beethoven

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Austro-British philosopher (1889-1951)

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Marcus Aurelius

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Former U.S. first lady (1964-present)

Actress, producer, and screenwriter (1979-present)

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Nikos Kazantzakis

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Singer, songwriter, and poet (1946-present)

Brazilian author (1947-present)

Buddhist nun and teacher (1936-present)

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Robert Rabensteiner

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Sharon Salzberg

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Simone de Beauvoir

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Stephen Colbert

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Terry Pratchett

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Thích Nhất Hạnh

Vietnamese Buddhist monk (1926-2022)

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Austrian writer (1888-1960)

EGOT-winning actress and producer (1965-present)

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Poet and essayist (1819-1892)

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Washington Irving

Writer and historian (1783-1859)

Novelist (1873-1947)

English poet and painter (1757-1827)

William Carlos Williams

William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet (c. 1564-1616)

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