Famous quotes containing the word desires:
“Heaven is not as high as the desires of the human heart.”
—Chinese proverb.
“A superior person desires truth more than he fears poverty.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucian Analects.
“...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)