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"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us."

Henri Matisse on Happiness

More quotes about Happiness

  • "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

    John Barrymore on Happiness

  • "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

    Dalai Lama on Happiness

  • "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

    Abraham Lincoln on Happiness

  • "I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

    Martha Washington on Happiness

  • "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Happiness

More quotes by Henri Matisse

  • "I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."

  • "Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."

  • "Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is."

  • "What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue."

  • "Creativity takes courage."

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