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Quotes about Happiness — 17 Timeless Lines

17 quotes about happiness, arranged the way they appear in Quote 2048: from the lightest line on the 2 tile to the crown quote on the 2048 tile, and on to 131072 in the app.

All quotes come from public-domain works or traditional proverbs; attributions were checked against their sources.

1. 2

   Fortune favors the smiling house

   — Proverb

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2. 4

   Shared joy is doubled, shared grief halved

   — Proverb

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3. 8

   Money can't buy happiness

   — Proverb

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4. 16

   Full belly, warm back, that's enough

   — Proverb

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5. 32

   Happiness is the meaning of life

   — Aristotle

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6. 64

   Each forges his own happiness

   — German proverb

   Original · GermanJeder ist seines Glückes Schmied

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7. 128

   A happy person makes others happy

   — Traditional

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8. 256

   He is rich who is content

   — Epictetus

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9. 512

   Happiness is made of minute fractions

   — Coleridge

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10. 1024

    Very little is needed for a happy life

    — Marcus Aurelius

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11. 2048👑 Crown quote

    Happiness is a habit—cultivate it

    — Elbert Hubbard

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12. Levels 4096–131072 continue in the app.
13. 4096

    The happy life is a life in harmony with nature

    — Seneca

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14. 8192

    Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination

    — Kant

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15. 16384

    He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing

    — Epicurus

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16. 32768

    Only those aiming elsewhere are happy

    — J. S. Mill

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17. 65536

    Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy

    — Dostoevsky

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18. 131072

    Happiness is virtue itself, not reward

    — Spinoza

    Original · LatinBeatitudo non est virtutis praemium, sed ipsa virtus

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