“Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.”
“The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.”
“The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the individual life in a way that expands our understanding of some previously unseen or unarticulated aspect of existence.”
“...Our beauty lies in this extended capacity for convolution.”
“Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.”
“The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.”