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Literary Quotes About Happiness

Here are some quotes about happiness that our community members from The Nest have shared. The below quotes are from some of their favorite books.

Quotes About Happiness

“I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”

- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (shared by tlreese44)

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“They teach you growing up that you are only one thing at a time—angry, lonely, content—but he’s never found that to be true. He is a dozen things at once. He is lost and scared and grateful, he is sorry and happy and afraid.”

- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (shared by Sage Greenwood)

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“She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness. It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.”

- The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (shared by Kathy - palmkdbooks)

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“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.”

- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (shared by samara_1991)

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“You are in all my happiest places.”

- Happy Place by Emily Henry (shared by karlynmr)

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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”

- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (shared by Frawst)

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