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All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a per

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness. – William Law

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Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. – William Law

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If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead. – William Law

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This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. – William Law

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. – Denis Diderot

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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. – Stendhal

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Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory. – Albert Schweitzer

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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. – Richard Bach

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