Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Self Esteem, Self Worth, Self Respect

• He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Failure, Thinking

• The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Desire, Events, Anticipation

• The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Death, Hate, Passion

• There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  People, Desire, Losing

• Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an age when our best blessings, youth and health, have already left us. When at last I that time has arrived, it surprises us in the midst of fresh desires; we have got no farther when we are attacked by a fever which kills us; if we had been cured, it would only have been to give us more time for other desires.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Blessing, Giving

• He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Successful, Thinking

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