Mark Twain Quotes

Now, you see, if you understand what I'm saying, with your intelligence, and then take the next step and say "But I understood it now, but I didn't feel it." Then, next I raise the question: Why do you want to feel it? You say: "I want something more", because that's again that spiritual greed. And you could only say that because you didn't understand it.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more fears and guilt laid on them. They're not interested in more sermons and exhortations. But they are interested in learning about love. How can I be happy? How can I live? How can I taste the marvelous things that the mystics speak of?

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.

The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

He is the least in want who is the least covetous.

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.

He who is greedy is always in want.

If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.

The covetous are always in want.

What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

The covetous man is ever in want.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

You cannot possess all and everything. Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.

Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.

Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?