Desiring Quotes

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.