Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
It's my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.
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