Desire Quote by Laozi

There is no greater disaster than discontent.

— Laozi

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

— Martha Washington

Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to…

— Fanny Burney

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than…

— Elie Wiesel

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

— Voltaire

“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he…

— Thomas à Kempis

The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented…

— Anonymous

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose for pleasure,…

— Owen Feltham

And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I…

— Ann Radcliffe

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart,…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one…

— Martha Washington