Life Quote by Alain de Botton

“St. Augustine said, "The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties." There are times when the entire arrangement of our existence is…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“There is much: recognition of the fact that human beings live indeterminate and incomplete lives; recognition of the power exerted over and upon us…

— Jean Bethke Elshtain

“It is the wretched way people have of setting up a claim to happiness that ruins everything in this world. A man will make…

— Johann Heinrich Merck

“Augustine wrote that humility is the source of all virtue, and pride the root of all evil.”

— Mel Starr

“St. Augustine wrote something once, something I think about often,” he said. “ ‘God triumphs on the ruins of our plans.’ And maybe that is…

— Anne Rice

“Misery develops in the insidious seams created by imprecision and faulty human thinking. The cure for unhappiness is finding joy by embracing human nature.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“In words which can still bring tears to the eyes, St. Augustine describes the desolation into which the death of his friend Nebridius plunged…

— C.S. Lewis

“Augustine reflects that “what made me a slave to it was the habit [consuetudo] of satisfying an insatiable lust.”31”

— Elaine Pagels

“At my very lowest, just when I believed unhappiness would eat me alive, I surrendered. I didn't suddenly become happy all at once; it…

— Robin Schwarz

“The more deeply we live, the more we feel in sympathy with Augustine, and the less with Pelagius.”

— Herman Bavinck

“We realized that life, even the worst of life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrow, successes and failure more than the successes.”

— Varlam Shalamov

“happiness was not some elusive force that only showered down upon the deserving, but a choice we all make despite the fact that life…

— Janis Thomas