John Ruskin Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

  John Ruskin

  Knowledge, Helping Others, People

  John Ruskin (2015). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.93, John Ruskin

• I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Father, House

  John Ruskin (1900). “The crown of wild olive: Munera pulveris. Pre-Raphaelitism. Aratra Pentelici, etc”

• The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

  John Ruskin

  Education, Children, Likes And Dislikes

  John Ruskin (1903). “Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain”

• I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

  John Ruskin

  Desire, Facts, Wealth

  John Ruskin (2007). “Unto This Last”, p.90, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

• But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,--it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God.

  John Ruskin

  Moving, Men, Fire

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation”, p.237

• There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.

  John Ruskin

  Ambition, Men, Two

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation”, p.343

• You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.

  John Ruskin

  Character, Expression, People

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.274, University of Virginia Press

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