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Happiness   /hˈæpinəs/   Listen
Happiness

noun
1.
State of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.  Synonym: felicity.
2.
Emotions experienced when in a state of well-being.



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"Happiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... breathe, while something rose up and choked her. If Glenister won this bet he would quit; she felt it. If he lost, ah! what could the Kid there feel, the man who was playing for a paltry vengeance, compared to her whose hope of happiness, of love, of life ...
— The Spoilers • Rex Beach
... channels. The secluded life she leads is a hotbed for the growth of noxious fungi in heart and mind. If you possess any influence over her, persuade her to re-enter society. She is still young enough to find not only a cure for her grief, but an ample share of even earthly happiness." ...
— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson
... had a heart which craved friendship. She was overcome with happiness by the advances of the Knippel family, and immediately gave herself to her new friend with absolute confidence and warm love. Soon many differences of opinion and of natural disposition showed themselves in the two girls, but Mea, in her overflowing joy of having found a friend, ...
— Maezli - A Story of the Swiss Valleys • Johanna Spyri
... parents to them, and it may be easily understood how from that time on both of them rested in the belief that there was no fellow in all Riverport quite the equal of Fred Fenton, because he had had so much to do with bringing them their present happiness. ...
— Fred Fenton Marathon Runner - The Great Race at Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... it very well," he retorted and found his proud reward in the company's laughter. The remark, moreover, passed from lip to lip to the king, and the misshapen jester felt his little cup of happiness filled once more to the brim; his old prestige seemed coming back to him; holding his position in the road, he gazed disdainfully at the disgruntled knight, and the other returned the look with one of hearty ill-will, muttering an imprecation and ...
— Under the Rose • Frederic Stewart Isham


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