Quotes About Desire

Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

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

All those who are unhappy in the world are so as a result of their desire for their own happiness. All those who are happy in the world are so as a result of their desire for the happiness of others.

To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom.

If permanent happiness comes with someone, Id leave everything.

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.

Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy

If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.

My happiness is measured in Inches, 2, 4, 6, 8, .... I LOVE SHOES TOO MUCH.

The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.

There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

We don't even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

There is no shame in preferring happiness.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.