Desire Quote by Henry Van Dyke Download Open image “It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.” — Henry Van Dyke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire
... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more. — Adoniram Judson Copy Share Image
For the first time, the object of what I want is more important than fulfilling my desires. — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
Better to want something and not have it, than to have something and not want it. — Uncle Phil Copy Share Image
Its true that we dont always get what we desire, but another thing is this that we too desire for the things we cant… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want. — Hanne Blank Copy Share Image
I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, And seen men put them all to shame with poor, half-hearted deeds.… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image