Full happiness is understood only by those who have denied themselves some legitimate pleasures in order to obtain deferred joys.

Third: Our happiness consists in fulfilling the purpose of our being. Every man knows, from his own unfulfilled hunger for them, that he was built with a capacity for three things of which he never has enough. He wants life—not for the next few minutes, but for always, and with no aging or disease to threaten it. He also wants to grasp truth—not

One of the greatest mistakes is to think that contentment comes from something outside us rather than from a quality of the soul.

For an empty soul, the Divine can fill; a worried soul, the Infinite can pacify. A self-concerned, proud soul, however, is inaccessible to Grace.

This is because of their mistaken belief that their hunger for Infinity can be satisfied by an infinity of material things: what they really wish is the Infinity of Divine Love.

Contrast is needed to help us see each thing as being vividly itself.

No One is dangerously unhappy except the individual who does not know what happiness means.

neither was happy, because God originally had given each a place according to his ability, one that best suited his own nature.

We must seek for Pure Life, Pure Truth and Pure Love—and that is the definition of God.