Confused Quote by Marcel Proust

“Our desires interweave with one another; and in the confusion of existence, it is seldom that a joy is promptly paired with the desire…

— Marcel Proust

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

— Julian Casablancas

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

— Richard Paul Evans

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing…

— Eric Hoffer

“We're surrounded by Universal Desire. It's not happiness; it's desire. And desires are never satisfied, because once they are, they cease to be desires”

— Paulo Coelho

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest…

— Sharon Salzberg

“People make themselves unhappy by desiring and praising only one thing, by becoming too one-sided in trying to find contentment. If we were just…

— Adalbert Stifter

We seek fulfillment in our lives through heart connection with others. This is our soul's essence of joy, which spontaneously pulses through us, longing…

— John Friend

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

— Eric Hoffer

Every human being was wired with the desire for happiness. And we will try different things all in the pursuit of that feeling.

— Kirk Franklin

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

— Anonymous

Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are…

— John Cowper Powys