| Quotation 1 : | ECSTASY
"After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing" |
| Paulo Coelho |
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| Quotation 2 : | ECSTASY
"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." |
| Franz Kafka |
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| Quotation 3 : | ECSTASY
"There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which" |
| J.M. Barrie |
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| Quotation 4 : | ECSTASY
"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and f" |
| Pearl S. Buck |
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| Quotation 5 : | ECSTASY
"He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine" |
| Emily Brontë |
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| Quotation 6 : | ECSTASY
"I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be... This does not mean that I ought to be trappe" |
| Madeleine L'Engle |
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| Quotation 7 : | ECSTASY
"We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies i" |
| Aldous Huxley |
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| Quotation 8 : | ECSTASY
"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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| Jack London |
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| Quotation 9 : | ECSTASY
"Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us." |
| Walter Pater |
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| Quotation 10 : | ECSTASY
"Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love." |
| Georges Bataille |
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| Quotation 11 : | ECSTASY
"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun." |
| Christopher McCandless |
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| Quotation 12 : | ECSTASY
"To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth." |
| Pearl S. Buck |
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| Quotation 13 : | ECSTASY
"When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself." |
| Tecumseh |
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| Quotation 14 : | ECSTASY
"A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life." |
| Hugh Sidey |
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| Quotation 15 : | ECSTASY
"Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment." |
| Tony Robbins |
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| Quotation 16 : | ECSTASY
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life." |
| Richard Bach |
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| Quotation 17 : | ECSTASY
"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls." |
| Mother Teresa |
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| Quotation 18 : | ECSTASY
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." |
| Leonardo da Vinci |
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| Quotation 19 : | ECSTASY
"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things." |
| William Wordsworth |
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| Quotation 20 : | ECSTASY
"The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is" |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 21 : | ECSTASY
"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I le" |
| Anaïs Nin |
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| Quotation 22 : | ECSTASY
"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and so" |
| Ernest Hemingway |
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| Quotation 23 : | ECSTASY
"Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest" |
| Joss Whedon |
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| Quotation 24 : | ECSTASY
"That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!" |
| Bill Watterson |
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| Quotation 25 : | ECSTASY
"Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy." |
| Henry Miller |
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| Quotation 26 : | ECSTASY
"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed." |
| Jiddu Krishnamurti |
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| Quotation 27 : | ECSTASY
"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all." |
| W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Quotation 28 : | ECSTASY
"I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy." |
| Anais Nin |
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| Quotation 29 : | ECSTASY
"The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods." |
| Elbert Hubbard |
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| Quotation 30 : | ECSTASY
"If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it." |
| Jean Cocteau |
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| Quotation 31 : | ECSTASY
"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience." |
| John Updike |
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| Quotation 32 : | ECSTASY
"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." |
| Franz Kafka |
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| Quotation 33 : | ECSTASY
"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." |
| Emily Dickinson |
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| Quotation 34 : | ECSTASY
"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." |
| Walter Pater |
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| Quotation 35 : | ECSTASY
"Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation." |
| Walter Benjamin |
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| Quotation 36 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment." |
| Bodhidharma |
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| Quotation 37 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution." |
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| Quotation 38 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified." |
| E. O. Wilson |
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| Quotation 39 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity." |
| Marianne Williamson |
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| Quotation 40 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"Not creating delusions is enlightenment." |
| Bodhidharma |
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| Quotation 41 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really." |
| David Hockney |
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| Quotation 42 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time." |
| Ralph Fiennes |
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| Quotation 43 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment." |
| Lao Tzu |
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| Quotation 44 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come t" |
| Buddha |
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| Quotation 45 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment." |
| Morihei Ueshiba |
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| Quotation 46 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter." |
| Dave Mustaine |
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| Quotation 47 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free." |
| Bill Richardson |
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| Quotation 48 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness." |
| Nikos Kazantzakis |
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| Quotation 49 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm." |
| Idries Shah |
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| Quotation 50 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment." |
| Morihei Ueshiba |
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| Quotation 51 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder." |
| Chuck Palahniuk |
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| Quotation 52 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason." |
| Friedrich Durrenmatt |
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| Quotation 53 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages." |
| Ernest Holmes |
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| Quotation 54 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment." |
| Stanislav Grof |
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| Quotation 55 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in pl" |
| Karen Armstrong |
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| Quotation 56 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naiv" |
| Tony Campolo |
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| Quotation 57 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense." |
| Polly Toynbee |
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| Quotation 58 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment." |
| Vera Farmiga |
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| Quotation 59 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom." |
| Quentin Crisp |
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| Quotation 60 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment." |
| Christopher Lasch |
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| Quotation 61 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak." |
| Satish Kumar |
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| Quotation 62 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment." |
| Bell Hooks |
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| Quotation 63 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not." |
| J. G. Ballard |
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| Quotation 64 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment." |
| Dogen Zenji |
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| Quotation 65 : | ENLIGHTENMENT
"The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith." |
| Michael Polanyi |
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| Quotation 66 : | HAPPINESS
"“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be" |
| Mother Teresa |
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| Quotation 67 : | HAPPINESS
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." |
| John Barrymore |
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| Quotation 68 : | HAPPINESS
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." |
| Dalai Lama |
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| Quotation 69 : | HAPPINESS
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Quotation 70 : | HAPPINESS
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| Quotation 71 : | HAPPINESS
"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness." |
| William E. Gladstone |
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| Quotation 72 : | HAPPINESS
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." |
| Dalai Lama |
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| Quotation 73 : | HAPPINESS
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." |
| Dalai Lama |
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| Quotation 74 : | HAPPINESS
"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new." |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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| Quotation 75 : | HAPPINESS
"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values." |
| Ayn Rand |
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| Quotation 76 : | HAPPINESS
"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude." |
| Dale Carnegie |
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| Quotation 77 : | HAPPINESS
"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so." |
| Robert Green Ingersoll |
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| Quotation 78 : | HAPPINESS
"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future." |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Quotation 79 : | HAPPINESS
"If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world." |
| David Brainerd |
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| Quotation 80 : | HAPPINESS
"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 81 : | HAPPINESS
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 82 : | HAPPINESS
"Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission—its masterpiece is, to reunite them." |
| Alexandre Vinet |
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| Quotation 83 : | HAPPINESS
"Nature teaches us that every believer should be a soul-winner. It is an essential part of the new nature. We see it in every child who loves to tell of his happiness and to bring others to share his joys." |
| Andrew Murray |
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| Quotation 84 : | HAPPINESS
"Our actions are the springs of our happiness or misery." |
| Philip Skelton |
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| Quotation 85 : | HAPPINESS
"When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame." |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 86 : | HAPPINESS
"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible." |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 87 : | HAPPINESS
"Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; Where your treasure is, there is your heart; Where your heart is, there is your happiness." |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 88 : | HAPPINESS
"In the destiny of every moral being there is an object more worthy of God than happiness. It is character. And the grand aim of man's creation is the development of a grand character, and grand character is, by its very nature, the product of probationary" |
| Austin Phelps |
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| Quotation 89 : | HAPPINESS
"God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there." |
| Billy Graham |
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| Quotation 90 : | HAPPINESS
"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 91 : | HAPPINESS
"Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 92 : | HAPPINESS
"All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 93 : | HAPPINESS
"Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 94 : | HAPPINESS
"There once was in man a true happiness of which now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present. But these are all inadequa" |
| Blaise Pascal |
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