Blaise Pascal on Happiness

“Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so.”

“They have a secret instinct which impels them to seek amusement and occupation abroad, and which arises from the sense of their constant unhappiness. They have another secret instinct, a remnant of the greatness of our original nature, which teaches them that happiness in reality consists only in rest and not in stir.”