Blaise Pascal Quotes

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Try
  • Aim
  • Jerusalem

• Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Running
  • Happiness
  • More

• 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Singing
  • Happiness
  • Story

• Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Giving
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Community

• Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Life
  • Money
  • Love

• For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Energy
  • Result
  • Aim

• My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Management

• Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Different
  • May
  • Understanding

• I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Time
  • Point
  • Aim

• With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Political
  • Respect
  • Attention

• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Trying
  • American
  • Happiness

• Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • Find

• The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • Free
  • Humanity

• Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.

  

  Plato
  • Rules
  • Poets
  • Dithyrambs

• I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.

  

  Erin Morgenstern
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Letting

• It's cheesy, but having a pimple or a bad hair day isn't going to matter in five years. I don't always remember that, but I try.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Remember
  • Bad
  • Day

• Look from the blind man's eye.... You can paint the picture, the way you like about this world, so why not think positive and make this world more beautiful for yourself and others?

  

  Fawad Afzal Khan
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Positive

• Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters.

  

  Elizabeth Lowell
  • Human
  • Characters
  • Letters

• All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Happiness
  • Aim
  • Employ