Quotes About Desire

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow-for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold

Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?

Oh, how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!

He who is greedy is always in want.

No gain satisfies a greedy mind.

We risk all in being too greedy.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional forms and ceremonies.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.

Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.

If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without it, she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.