Desire Quote by William B. Irvine

“the traditional pursuit of happiness isn’t enough to give us the happiness we want.”

— Noah Elkrief

“The earthly desires men cherish are shadows. There is no true happiness in fulfilling them. Why, then, do we continue to pursue joys without…

— Thomas Merton

“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

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

“[…] we humans, as long as we live, are generally incapable of freeing ourselves from a certain ardent searching and longing, and should not…

— Robert Walser

“Happiness - in part at least - the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice waht we want for what we want eventually”

— Stephen R. Covey

Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness;…

— Robert Southey

“Actively, we are motivated by the never-ending desires of the self. We are compelled to pursue whatever the self imagines will satisfy its desires.…

— Dharma Publishing

“One cannot make plans to acquire happiness; it has to be unbidden and spontaneous only than it can give us peace.”

— RKSJ(Rohit Kumar Singh Jadon

People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find that ultimately…

— Desmond Tutu

“Human beings, he argued, are not hardwired for seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. They want meaning. In spite of what we say, we don’t…

— Jeff Goins

Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped…

— Alison Gopnik