Saint Augustine on happiness
Saint Augustine104 quotes“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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Saint AugustineSaint Augustine If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine To sing is to pray twice.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine He that is jealous is not in love.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Truth is not private property.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
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David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
Thomas PaineThomas Paine We need to understand the hierarchy of connections. Ultimately, we must connect to something above ourselves such as God. This can give us the power to spread happiness and joy around the world.
Gaur Gopal DasGaur Gopal Das Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.
Aishwarya RaiAishwarya Rai What has changed is that nothing has changed. That’s what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
Willie NelsonWillie Nelson To everybody here’s looking at all the colours of light. May your happiness be in all shades, vibrancy & madness of these colours.
Shahrukh KhanShahrukh Khan I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.
Thomas PaineThomas Paine Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
Thomas MertonThomas Merton No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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