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Creative people are, on the whole, happy, despite the common caricature
of the manic-depressive artist. The joys of bringing something into
existence are why people work long and hard through the dark days.
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being, courage, enthusiasm, living creatively, love*, passion, self, wonder
Quotes
‘The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.’
— Marcus Aurelius
‘The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.’
— Walter Bagehot
‘I’d work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I’d
wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I
was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.’
— Trevor Baylis
‘Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far
more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.’
— Clarence Day
‘It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and
searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.’
— Albert Einstein
‘It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression
and knowledge.’
— Albert Einstein
‘He that fears not future may enjoy the present.’
— Thomas Fuller
‘If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.’
— Katherine Hepburn
‘First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour
is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.’
— Anita Roddick
‘Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.’
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
‘Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but
hope and enterprise and change.’
— Bertrand Russell
‘The creative consequences of man’s imaginative strivings may never make him
whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.’
— Anthony Storr
‘Art is the imposing of pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is
recognition of the pattern.’
— Alfred North Whitehead
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