Desire Quote by Kent Nerburn

Life is not only meant to be appreciated in retrospect ... There is something each day to embrace and cherish.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

— Gayle Forman

From the moment we expect gratitude, we forfeit it.

— Ivan Panin

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to…

— George Eliot

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

— Jim Elliot

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

We receive and we lose, and we must try to achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to embrace with whole hearts whatever of life…

— Andre Dubus

We must purposefully create a life of gratitude if we want to be fully alive.

— Chris Guillebeau

This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.

— David Levithan

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult…

— Ayya Khema

The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

— John Piper