“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes · "Dreams," 1922
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Happiness Quotes
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119 quotes on happiness and hope — from the classics to the everyday.
“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
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore.”
Lord Byron · Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV, 1818
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
Henry David Thoreau · Journal
“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.”
Joseph Addison · The Spectator, 1711
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“However long the night, the dawn will break.”
African Proverb
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust · Les Plaisirs et les Jours, 1896
“Saturday is a day for the spa. Relax, indulge, enjoy, and love yourself, too.”
Ana Monnar
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · widely attributed
