There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather. -
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. -
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. -
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. -
The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
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- 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.
- The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
- 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.
- A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.