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Quotes About Happiness

That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!
~ Minnie Pearl
Earth laughs in flowers.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.
~ Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception
~ Marcus Aurelius
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
~ Anne Frank
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness
~ Ramana Maharshi
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
~ Zhuangzi
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.
~ John Denver
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
~ C. S. Lewis
A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
~ Charles Lamb
The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.
~ Baron d'Holbach
If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made.
~ Brooke Astor
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
~ Joseph Butler
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
~ Epicurus
Happiness should be something which results from the creative, genuine, intense relatedness - awareness, responsiveness, to everything in life - to man, to nature.
~ Erich Fromm
All Nature wears one universal grin.
~ Henry Fielding
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
~ William Cowper
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
~ Albert Camus
The more you go within, the more you understand your true nature, and the more joy and happiness you feel in your life.
~ Brian Weiss
The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.
~ Baron d'Holbach
Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.
~ Robert Holden
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature