Happiness Quote by Robert Boyle Download Open image “Unalloyed satisfactions are joys too heavenly to fall to many mens shares on earth.” — Robert Boyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness Joy Nature
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The earthly desires men cherish are shadows. There is no true happiness in fulfilling them. Why, then, do we continue to pursue joys without substance? Because the pursuit itself has become our only substitute for joy. Unable to rest in anything we achieve, we determine to forget our discontent in a ceaseless quest for new satisfactions. In this pursuit, desire… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race. — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Satisfaction is not always the fulfillment of what you want; it is the realization of how blessed you are for what you have. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Satisfaction does not arrive simply when we do what makes us feel good. It comes when we serve others. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only true satisfaction we can seek is the satisfaction of being obedient to the Lord. — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men. — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The least unhappy persons do, in so fickle and so tempestuous a sea as this world, meet with many more either cross winds or… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed. — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
And first, it seems not at all probable, That if the Omniscient Author of Nature knew that the study of his Works did really tend to make Men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would have given Men so many Invitations, and almost Necessities, to study and contemplate the Nature of his Creatures: Of these Invitations divers have been mention'd… — Robert Boyle Copy Share
The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Divers things we agree to be knowledge, which yet are so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood by our imperfect intellects, that let them be… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Since a few minutes can turn the healthiest bodies into breathless carcasses, and put those very things which we had principally relied on into the hands of our enemies, it were little less than madness to repose a distrustless trust in these transitory possessions or treacherous advantages which we enjoy but by so fickle a tenure. No; we must never… — Robert Boyle Copy Share
I consider then, that generally speaking, to render a reason of an effect or Phaenomenon, is to deduce It from something else in Nature more known than it self, and that consequently there may be divers kinds of Degrees of Explication of the same thing. For although such Explications be the most satisfactory to the Understanding, wherein 'tis shewn how… — Robert Boyle Copy Share
As to the freeness or unmeritedness of Gods love, we need but consider that we so little could at first deserve his love, that… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Let there be an admiration of those divine attributes and prerogatives for whose manifesting he was pleased to construct this vast fabric. — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation… There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
“WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS… — MARVIN J. ASHTON Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel ! — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content, knowing that he would never see anything so beautiful again. He wished he could have seen it for longer. More, he wished he could have taken it apart, studied it all the way down to its… — Mira Grant Copy Share
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
