Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
BLAISE PASCALOne-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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