Quotes About Desire

We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

Few love what they may have.

Long only for what you have.

We are never content with our lot.

It is not customary to love what one has.

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy one.

How many things there are which I do not want.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Happy thou art not for what thou hast not still thou striv'est to get and what thou hast forget'est.

Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.

If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.

He is not rich that possesses much but he that covets no more and he is not poor that enjoys little but he that wants too much.

He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.

Nothing will content him who is not content with a little.

Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor.

What strange perversity is it that induces a man to set his heart on doing those things which he has not succeeded in and makes him slight those in which his achievement has been respectable.

True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.

To be content with little is difficult to be content with much impossible.

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.