Quotes About Desire

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Joy is what we all seek. It is an energy more powerful than food. But without love we can not feel true joy.

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

Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.

The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

The desire for true happiness is nothing to feel ashamed about.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be.

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.