"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."

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"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."

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"The righteous shall rejoice."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Happiness, Fun, Joy, Instinct, Emotion

"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Happiness, Age, Constitution, Ruin

"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

Happiness, Mistake, Suffering, Understanding

"[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Happiness, Joy, Love, Emotion

"A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Happiness, Simplicity, Life, Philosophy

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"My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it."

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"History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that."

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"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."

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"This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life."

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"The righteous shall rejoice."

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

"Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct."

"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."

"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."

"[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him."

"A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on."

"Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity."

Explore more quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

"One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up."

"The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment."

"My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it."

"How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me."

"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."

"Surely the glory of journalism is its transience."

"History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that."

"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."

"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."

"This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life."