Blessing Quote by Mary Wortley Montagu

Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness… Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy…

— H. G. Wells

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

— Horace

The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven't.

— William Arthur Ward

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

— Oliver Goldsmith

It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

— Abraham Maslow

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

— Peter J. Carroll

There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It…

— Carl Van Vechten

How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from…

— Richard Steele

I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for the ideal,…

— Isabelle Eberhardt

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, 'I care more about satisfying…

— Russell M. Nelson

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions…

— Charles Kuralt

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are…

— Henry A. Wallace