The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin finds no love no life no laughter no hope and no happiness.

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

After climbing a great hill one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

And this our life exempt from public haunt finds tongues in trees books in the running brooks sermons in stones and good in everything.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap there to feed and caress him in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do love finds us every time.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom when it comes not merely philosophically but almost with pleasure.

Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil when one feels tranquil one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings when one has these feelings and appreciates them one is free of fear.

My faith inasmuch as I have any is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.