Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
- Topic: Creativity, Happiness
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Creativity is often blocked to trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
