Quote by William Law
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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No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress. – William Law

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Education
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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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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. – Joseph Roux

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I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is. – Alanis Morissette

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No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange anothers happiness. – Graham Greene

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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. – J.D. Salinger

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. – Ernst Moritz Arndt

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I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, the ability to conceive failure as progress. – Jerry Saltz

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The only thing worse than being bored is being boring. – Jean Baudrillard

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