Application Quote by Samuel Johnson

Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell…

— William DeWitt Hyde

“It is the very nature of desire that it remains unfulfilled. It will arise again and again, and the more you try to fulfill…

— Osho

An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever…

— Gautama Buddha

The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it…

— Marcus Aurelius

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

— Walter Savage Landor

“see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which gain have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence;…

— Goethe

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief,…

— Ann Radcliffe

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

— Jean Rostand

“Happiness from the fulfillment of induced desires can only be temporary.”

— Tapan Ghosh

The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations…

— Gardner Murphy

In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined…

— John Tillotson

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They…

— Emile Durkheim