Desiring What Is Essential Quotes & Sayings

She mistrusted the periods of quiet that are essential to true growth. Desiring — E. M. Forster

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. — Ian McEwan

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others. — Ella Baker

The unexplored life is not worth living! — Plato

For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of course, some important progress has been made and millions of lives have been saved, but millions more could be saved. — Peter Singer

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them! — Ben Jonson

You are safe with me, Teagan," he said. "Safer than you have ever been in your life. When you are frightened, look to me."
-Andre — Christine Feehan

Henry knew better than to want freedom. The only life worth living was the unfree life, the life Schwartz had taught him, the life in which you were chained to your one true wish, the wish to be simple and perfect. Then the days were sky-blue spaces you moved through with ease. You made sacrifices and the sacrifices made sense. You ate till you were full and then you drank SuperBoost, because every ounce of muscle meant something. You stoked the furnace, fed the machine. No matter how hard you worked, you could never feel harried or hurried, because you were doing what you wanted and so one moment simply produced the next. — Chad Harbach

The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that's how it should be. — Alexander McCall Smith

People make themselves unhappy by desiring and praising only one thing, by becoming too one-sided in trying to find contentment. If we were just in harmony with ourselves we would enjoy the things of this world much more. But when we have an inordinate amount of desires and aspirations, we only listen to them, we are incapable of understanding the essential innocence of things outside ourselves. Unfortunately, we often term those things important that are the objects of our emotions, and those things that have no relation to our desires are called unimportant; however, many times it is exactly the opposite. — Adalbert Stifter

Huge, dizzying, clumps and clusters of snow falling through the air, patches of white against an iron-gray sky, snow that touches your tongue with cold and winter, that kisses your face with its hesitant touch before freezing you to death. Twelve cotton-candy inches of snow, creating a fairytale world, making everything unrecognizably beautiful ... — Neil Gaiman

Why pay for an undesirable outcome with someone else? For the same money, you could have paid me to stay at home and do nothing. — Jarod Kintz

Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire. — Anthony Liccione