 Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: English Literature in the 16th Century |
| The surest way of spoiling a pleasure is to start examining your satisfaction. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: Surprised by Joy |
| All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. Author: C.S. Lewis |
| Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. Author: C.S. Lewis |
| God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. Author: C.S. Lewis |
| I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. Author: C.S. Lewis |
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| 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 mere milk and water. Author: C.S. Lewis |
| 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 inadequate, because the infinite abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God Himself. Author: Blaise Pascal |
| Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. Author: Blaise Pascal |
| If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy. Author: Blaise Pascal |
| It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. Author: Blaise Pascal |
| All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room. Author: Blaise Pascal |
