Desire Quote by John Bunyan

“In wanting, a man knows himself better than in having, since, in the absence of temporal things, man is better prepared for the reception…

— ascribed to Johannes Tauler

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to…

— Mark Hopkins

“Friendship is no ideal state of mind; it is a law, and a strict one, on which the entire legal systems of great cultures…

— Sándor Márai

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

— Khalil Gibran

“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others that have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those engaged…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Friendship among men, when it overpasses a certain limit, has something deep, high, ideal, infinitely sweet, to which no other friendship attains.”

— Paul Sabatier

The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way…

— Thomas Hobbes

“Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires”

— Richard Wright

“When we hold an ideal of friendship in our minds, believing it’s attainable, we hold a standard above the heads of real women God…

— Christine Hoover

Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that…

— Blaise Pascal

He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love…

— Simone Weil