"To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive." ― Matthew Arnold Topic(s): Happiness More From Matthew Arnold "Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things." "The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion." "Truth sits upon the lips of dying men." More In Happiness "There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life."― Mary Wortley "Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it."― Rachel Field "A face is too slight a foundation for happiness."― Mary Wortley