Desire Quote by Joseph Joubert Download Open image “We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.” — Joseph Joubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Given Happiness Passion Stuff Use
We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose.… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
“Our purpose and passions often seem to fade into the background, and we begin to deny our very nature. You know, the things in… — Dana Malstaff Copy Share Image
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise,… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. — Joseph Joubert 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
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
