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Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell.

Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.

Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.

Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.