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“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work must no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.”

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Book:Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

“I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.”

Men Mean Long Seems Care Happiness Humanity Individual Progress Goodness Ideals Mere Species Longevity I Care Individual Life

Author:C. S. Lewis

“If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.”

Source: Happiness

“If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.”

Ifs Whole Seems Would Be Happiness Grief Written Mere Breasts Inward Foe Brows Seeming Envied

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.”

Should Humans Happiness Pleasure Animal Should Have Mere Equality Enjoyment Human Happiness Subordination

Book:The table talk of Samuel Johnson

Source: The table talk of Samuel Johnson

“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”

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Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.”

Thinking Doe Sometimes Action Happiness Can Do Goodness Shame Mere Vices Senses Awkward Good Deeds Straightforward Preventing Doings Senselessness

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed