"There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness."

Happiness, Dream, Excellence, Labor

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"There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness."

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"Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home."

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

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"A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it."

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"Learn to be happy with yourself first, then happiness will follow you everywhere."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time."

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"These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"You are as happy as you chose to be. So chose to be happy."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels."

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"Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world."

Knowledge, World

"My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon."

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"I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult."

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"We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain."

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"A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them."

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"Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft."

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"No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force."

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"Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities."

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"The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset."

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