Elements Quotes by Josef Pieper

Josef Pieper

No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.

Elements

Feelings

Gratitude

Josef Pieper

The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God Himself, and which is the aim and purpose of all that happens in the world.

Elements

Purpose

Special

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Richard Grossman

Vidal Sassoon

Kenny Wormald

Derek Walcott

Hu Shih

Abstinence

Active

Age

Ambition

Art

Attainment

Causes

Christian

Christian Inspirational

Connections

Conscious

Contemplation

Culture

Demand

Desire

Doe

Elements

Ends

Essence

Eternity

Evil

Exclusion

Eye

Faith

Fall

Feelings

Felicity

Giving

Grateful

Gratitude

Habit

Happy Life

Hard Work

Heaven

Historical

Inspiration

Intuition

Joy

Justice

Know Me

Knowing

Leisure

Life Is

Littles

Logos

Longing

Mad

May

Mean

Men

Moral

Needs

Opposites

Order

Patents

Perfect

Philosophy

Psychics

Purpose

Reality

Religious

Response

Satisfaction

Self

Sensual

Silence

Smallest

Sorrow

Soul

Space

Special

Spiritual

States

Steps

Strong

Support

Surrender

Taken

Teaching

Thinking

Toil

Trying

Unrest

Way

Wonder

World

Would Be

Wrath

Elements Quotes by Josef Pieper

No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.

The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God Himself, and which is the aim and purpose of all that happens in the world.

Get Social with TBU