“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
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Happiness Quotes
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63 quotes on happiness and hope — from the classics to the everyday.
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“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
Maya Angelou
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
Mae West
“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”
Jean Kerr · Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
Dr. Seuss · I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!, 1978
“I want people to feel like they're not alone in being a mess.”
Oliver Tree
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
Victor Hugo · Les Misérables, 1862
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible!'”
Audrey Hepburn
“I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”
Elon Musk · SXSW, 2013
“I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.”
Elon Musk · Rolling Stone interview, 2017
“I don't think it's that easy, honestly. I think if somebody doesn't have a compelling problem to work on, they're probably not going to be very happy.”
Elon Musk · Interview, TED Talk, 2022
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
Robert Frost · Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length, 1942
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
Voltaire
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
Charles Dickens · Nicholas Nickleby, 1839
“You know how paradise is supposed to be a place on Earth in the summer time.”
Diane Arbus · Photographic essay and interviews
“The smell of the grass, the taste of the rain, the feeling that anything was possible.”
Margaret Mitchell · Gone with the Wind
