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Happiness Quotes
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59 quotes on happiness and hope — from the classics to the everyday.
“Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.”
Prince
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
J.B. Priestley
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
Henry David Thoreau · Journal, 1840
“Then followed that beautiful season called summer, filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Evangeline, 1847
“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
L.M. Montgomery · Anne of Green Gables, 1908
“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Henry James · As quoted by Edith Wharton in A Backward Glance, 1934
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
Maud Hart Lovelace · Betsy-Tacy, 1940
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes · "Dreams," 1922
“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.”
Zora Neale Hurston · "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," World Tomorrow, 1928
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman
“I cook, I eat, I travel. That's my life. It could be worse.”
Anthony Bourdain
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Oscar Wilde · An Ideal Husband, 1895
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
Oscar Wilde · attributed, widely documented
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
Socrates · Attributed in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
Margaret Lee Runbeck · Time for Each Other, 1944
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28 · The Bible, New International Version
