Quotes About Desire

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Wanting ... is something 'having' cannot cure.

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

I had little talent for happiness.

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.

Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

The will of man is his happiness.

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

Break open the forbidden happiness.

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

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

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.