As the bird with a broken wing is free to fly but not able, so the natural man is free to come to God but not able. - Loraine Boettner
Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. The order of nature will always necessitate pain, failure, separation, death; and these will probably become more menacing as the complexities and dangerous experiments of a vast world civilization increase. The delicate task will remain ours to ensure God’s gift—joy—to His children. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself. -Helen Keller (1880-1968), Her journal, entry dated December 10, 1936
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is a generally the product of other activities. -Alduous Huxley, Essay "Distractions I" in _Vedanta for the Western World_ (1945) edited by Christopher Isherwood
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