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“The earthly desires men cherish are shadows. There is no true happiness in fulfilling them. Why, then, do we continue to pursue joys without…

— Thomas Merton

“Actively, we are motivated by the never-ending desires of the self. We are compelled to pursue whatever the self imagines will satisfy its desires.…

— Dharma Publishing

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

— C. S. Lewis

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it…

— Henry Fielding

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness…

— Hugh Black

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness…

— Hugo Black

There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of…

— Laurence Sterne

Satisfaction is not always the fulfillment of what you want; it is the realization of how blessed you are for what you have.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them…

— Samuel Johnson

“The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and…

— Noah Levine