Learn Through Quotations

“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”

“A hard man is good to find.”

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”

“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”

“I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”

“Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.”

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”

“I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.”

“Where there is great love, there are always wishes.”

“In melody divine, My heart it beats to rapturous love, I long to call you mine.”

“There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.”

“The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.”

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limited desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”

“If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we'd all have a bowl of granola.”

“Hunger: One of the few cravings that cannot be appeased with another solution.”

“Life is like a combination lock; your goal is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have anything you want.”

“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”

“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.”

“All men by nature desire to know.”

“Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.”

“Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.”

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”

“Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want.”