Heraclitus Quotes

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

I think people who sit around and are always yearning for the next thing are not always the happiest people.

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more.

What you've never had, you never miss.

You'd never be able to appreciate what's good in life if you've never experienced the bad.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.

It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

You have nothing. One should never allow themselves to think that they have, one can just touch - to have is to lack appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again.

I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.