"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible." ― Saint Augustine Topic(s): Happiness Tags: indeed, wishes More From Saint Augustine "In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?" "Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point." "Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked." More In Happiness "Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity."― Robert Trout "It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."― George Bernard Shaw "While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love."― Bo Bennett