The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.
Saint AugustineRead
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness
Interpretation
Our true happiness lies in the pursuits that we value most.
This quote by Saint Augustine emphasizes the connection between our passions, values, and ultimate happiness. It suggests that where we find joy and pleasure, we also discover what we truly treasure in life; thus, our happiness is linked to the alignment of our hearts with our pursuits and interests.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing one's dreams, one might say, 'Remember, where your pleasure is, there is your treasure.'
The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.
There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.
Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth.
A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.
Don't postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.
And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
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