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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.
Consumers desiring a better world have already achieved some successes in this regard, helping to transform several industries from the ground up.
In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
In future, migrants desiring to enter our State will need to be registered and their personal details and identification proof will have to be submitted to the police station.
Certain gifts God makes to the human soul without its asking or desiring; but there are other gifts which the grown-up soul, with the use of reason, can only have by its desire.
Love fills and empties simultaneously. It makes us reach out to God, ready to be pruned, recklessly desiring whatever the cost. It soothes the aching heart and then makes it thirst for more.
So many people subconsciously shy away from getting rich because they believe they'll be judged, they'll lose the people they love, they believe that desiring money is a bad thing, money is the root of all evil, etc.
It began to really eat away with me that in the '60s the federal government, desiring to help poor moms who were dealing with deadbeat dads, decided, 'We'll help: we'll give a check for every child you can have out of wedlock.'
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
I could heartily wish that every commission officer was to be previously examined; for, to my certain knowledge, there are persons who have already crept into commission without abilities or fit qualification: I am myself far from desiring to be excused.
I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.
