Blaise Pascal on happiness
Blaise Pascal82 quotes“Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.”
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal We never love a person, but only qualities.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Thomas HardyThomas Hardy We become happier not by accumulating more things but by creating richer experiences.
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