
“The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.”
What Is To Be Done? (1886) Chap. XXXVIII, as translated in The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï (1902) edited by Nathan Haskell Dole, p. 259
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“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
The Simplest Way to be Happy (1933)

Quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations, in Most Frequent Use by D.E. Macdonnel (1809) translated from French: Le bonheur de l'homme en cette vi ne consiste pas á être sans passions: il consiste à en être le maître.
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Source: "Intuitions" (October 1932), published in Youthful Writings (1976)

“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”

“Life consists
Of propositions about life.”
"Men Made Out of Words"
Transport to Summer (1947)
Context: Life consists
Of propositions about life. The human
Revery is a solitude in which
We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats
And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down
The eccentric propositions of its fate.
“Life without labor is crime, and labor without art is brutality.”
Said in 1914 during an exhibit at Allen Chapel in Indianapolis; cited in William Edward Taylor, Harriet Garcia Warkel and Margaret Taylor Burroughs, A Shared Heritage, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Cf. John Ruskin: "Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality," from Lectures on Art (1870), lecture III

“Life without absorbing occupation is hell — joy consists in forgetting life.”
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)