Quotes about Desire
God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.
- Pope Benedict XVI
If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.
- John Maxwell
The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
- Jonathan Edwards
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness
- St. Augustine
There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
There is no shame in preferring happiness.
- Albert Camus
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
- GK Chesterton
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
- Epicurus
No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.
- AW Tozer
I had little talent for happiness.
- Samuel Beckett
We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it
- Epicurus
Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.
- Beverly Lewis