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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. -- Leo Tolstoy
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
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! -- Oliver Goldsmith
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. -- Marcus Aurelius
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. -- Dennis Prager
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect. -- Adam Clarke
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. -- Adam Weishaupt
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream. -- Steven Pinker
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. -- Rollo May
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. -- Joseph Butler
True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature. -- Tara Brach
Happiness is in nature, beauty, and tranquility. -- Debasish Mridha
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness. -- Samuel Johnson
Happiness is a good that nature sells us. -- Voltaire
Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. -- Galen
Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness. -- Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis -- Robert Holden
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. -- Pat Conroy
Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. -- William Cowper
Happiness in nature is a double happiness; sorrow in nature is a half sorrow! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness -- Ramana Maharshi
The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it. -- Robertson Davies
Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it. -- Claudius Claudianus
The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue. -- Thomas Jefferson
To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature. -- Isabelle Eberhardt
Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. -- Samuel Johnson
Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it. -- Claudius Claudianus
He who learns to be happy in nature gains an endless temple for happiness every time he needs! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Love is the only cause of happiness. Its nature is all-pervasive like space. Love is the sunlight of the mind -- Garchen Rinpoche
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature? -- Ellen Glasgow
For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures. -- Benjamin Disraeli
As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story. -- John Burnside
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. -- Ramana Maharshi
Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. -- Robert A. Burton
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
Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. -- Steve Maraboli
I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Happiness should be something which results from the creative, genuine, intense relatedness - awareness, responsiveness, to everything in life - to man, to nature. -- Erich Fromm
I believe that everything in Nature aspires to the acme of strength, well-being, and happiness; and everything that deviates from this I call immoral. -- Henry van de Velde
We are part of nature. We are here to bloom like a flower- to ornate the earth with beauty, love, joy, happiness, and care. -- Debasish Mridha
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness. -- Adi Shankara
Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends -- Thomas Jefferson
Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
When you experience the light, voila, you're happy. The very nature of the light is happiness. You don't have to do anything or be anybody special. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature. -- Dora Russell
The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends. -- Thomas Jefferson
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. -- Samuel Johnson
Nothing is as unique as sex in nature; it is full of enjoyment, pleasure and happiness. There is no discrimination, no exclusion, no inequality and no racism. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. -- Benjamin Franklin
Use the freest goods for happiness... The stars cost nothing. Nature costs nothing. Your inner life costs nothing. God costs nothing. And yet they are all infinitely precious. -- Robert Muller
One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously. -- Sigmund Freud
Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor. -- Albert Ellis
The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness. -- Siri Hustvedt
As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list. -- Victoria Osteen
Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life. -- George Santayana
We feel very happy in nature but we must be very sure that nature also feels very happy when we are there! Happiness must be mutual! Treat nature well! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science. -- Thomas Jefferson
While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom! -- Mehmet Murat ildan

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