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Happiness Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain?…
- When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
- And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this…
- Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given…
- Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.
- Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his…
- What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.
- To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the…
- I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those…
- To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his…
- The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a…
- Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
- Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.
- I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as…
- Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and…
- There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
- God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly…
- Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever…
- The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than…
- To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an…
- The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
- Emeth speaking of Aslan, "Beloved, said the Glorious One, unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so…
- If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach