Why so serious?

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes

- C. S. Lewis

Corollary to Pascal's quote on Happiness

Human Beings seek happiness above survival. If they get too convinced that their Happiness is not in survival, they kill themselves.


Pascal's quote on happiness here

My cup runneth over

"If we give the impression that the main effect of Christianity is to make us miserable, then it is not surprising that ninety per cent of the people are outside the Christian church. 'Miserable Christians,' they say, 'look at them!' And they add that they have life, they have joy, they have fullness. Shame on us Christian people! But it is not merely a question of saying shame on us. What a terrible responsibility is ours if we are so misrepresenting this 'glorious gospel of the blessed God' (1 Timothy 1:11). We are meant to be witnesses to all people that we are filled to overflowing. We are meant to show the truth of the psalmist's words: 'My cup runneth over!' (Psalm 23:5)."

Dr. M. L. Jones

Random thought # 2000

One of the biggest enemies between you and your happiness is you

Blaise Pascal on Happiness

"All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves."

- Blaise Pascal