"Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success." ― Kenneth L. Pike Topic(s): Happiness More From Kenneth L. Pike "Acceptance of the power of God in one’s life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict." "That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another." "Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions." More In Happiness "Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."― Thomas Jefferson "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness."― Benjamin Franklin "The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted."― Jonathan Edwards