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" To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. "

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" A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. "

" Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. "

Fyodor Dostoevsky

" Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. "

Alphonse de Lamartine

" What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. "

Bernard Cornwell

" You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy. "

" The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. "

" If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. "

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

" Happiness is the longing for repetition. "

" Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others. "

" Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness. "

Kathryn Minshew

" I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them. "

Frederic Chopin

" Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. "

Oswald Chambers

" Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don't forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I'll ever achieve. "

" Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. "

" It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. "

" The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. "

Emanuel Swedenborg

" Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it. "

" I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about. "

" We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. "

" Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. "

" I'm just living each day, and I'm better equipped to do so. I mean, I used to be totally afraid, I used to have, like, permanent stage fright. But now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to bring as much happiness to as many people as possible. "

" Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. "

" It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. "

" There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. "

" I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter. "

" Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. "

John Mason Good

" Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. "

Ernest Hemingway

" In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity. "

David A. Bednar

" Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall. "

Francois Lelord