There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

Henry Miller
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  1. Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea... - Ayn Rand

  2. I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way. - Thomas Keller

  3. All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions - Leonardo Da Vinci

  4. What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul. - Deepak Chopra

  5. Anymore, no one's mind is their own. - Chuck Palahniuk

More Quotes By Henry Miller
  1. What's a fuck when what I want is love?

  2. Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

  3. Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  4. The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

  5. Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

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