Quote by John Ruskin
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health,

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life. – John Ruskin

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. – John Ruskin

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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. – John Ruskin

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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. – John Ruskin

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. – Leo Tolstoy

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Never mind your happiness do your duty. – Peter Drucker

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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. – Charles Caleb Colton

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From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. – Dennis Prager

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Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like Ive succeeded, if Im doing something that makes me happy and Im not lying to anybody. – Kristen Stewart

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I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts – protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach. – James McGreevey

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Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune. – Andrew Carnegie

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