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If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
— CS Lewis
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
— St. Augustine
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
— Martin Luther
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.
— Paulo Coelho
There can be no joy in living without joy in work.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
— John Mayer
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
— Albert Camus
I had little talent for happiness.
— Samuel Beckett
He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
— John Bunyan
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
— Henry David Thoreau
Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?
— AA Milne