God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.C. S. Lewis
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.C. S. Lewis
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?C. S. Lewis
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.Blaise Pascal
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.Blaise Pascal
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.Blaise Pascal
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.Blaise Pascal
