Answers Quote by Elbert Hubbard

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

— Slavoj Žižek

Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We’ve got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

— Samuel Johnson

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.

— Elias Hicks

Expects less from people, cause dissappointment will come from people you never expects it from, it's only you that can be guaranteed to always…

— Blaze Olamiday

When we ask for our wishes to be fulfilled our focus is extremely narrow. We are fixated on pleasures which supply us with the…

— Ruben Papian

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none,…

— Plato

The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy.

— Swami Prabhavananda

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

— Samuel Johnson

“Maintaining a state of joyful expectancy and positive anticipation about our desires significantly influences their manifestation into reality.”

— Russ Kyle