keep to the Present (Pascal)

47 "We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wonder about in times that do not belong to us; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is"

Happiness from Pascal's book "Pensees"

309 "If man was not made for God, why is he only happy in God? If man was made for God, why is he so opposed to God?

407 "The Stoics say 'whitdraw into yourself, that is where you will find peace'. And that is not true.
Others say 'Go outside: look for happinness in some diversion' And that is not true, we may fall sick.
Happiness is neither outside nor inside us; It is in God both outside and inside us"

151 "It is absurd for us to rely in the company of our fellows, as wretched and helpless as we are; they will not help us, we shall die alone.
We shall act then as though we were alone. If that were so, would we build superb houses, etc? We should unhesitantingly look for the truth. And, if we refuse, it shows that we have a higher regard for man's steem than for pursuing the truth"

148 "All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions. However different the means they may employ. They all strive towards this goal. The reason why some go to war and some do not is the same desire in both, but interpreted in two different ways. The will never takes the least step except towards that end. This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves"