A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Before Desire Examine Happiness Passionately Should Thing

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French - Writer
September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

Richard Paul Evans

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

Jean de la Bruyere

It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul wants happiness, perfect and pure happiness, because only then will all desires end. As long as desire exists misery exists, because with desire there can be no peace.

Rajneesh

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

Blaise Pascal

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Isaac D'Israeli

That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

T. S. Eliot

Examine what you do and examine what other women do. Examine the dreams that men hold of you and how they force you in a corner, literally and figuratively.

Frederick Lenz

The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.

P. T. Barnum

It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from us. It is not our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

Alec Waugh

Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.

Judy Blume

Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon as they experience passes, the happiness passes.

Frederick Lenz

You should be relaxed before taking the free kick. You should have confidence in your ability and happiness that you are going to score a goal.