Evelyn Underhill Quotes

It's so much better to desire than to have.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

I want to do something really special in my life.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

I want to do really good things with my life.

I've done very well in the film business. Whenever I have wanted something, the film business has given it to me. I'm very fortunate. My big problem in life has always been, 'What do I want?'

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

When it comes to anything you want to do in your life, you have to be passionate. Success may come, but in the end, the most important thing is that you are doing what you really want to do.

I believe in goals. It's never a bad thing to have a dream. If something is really what you want to do, just do it. Whatever your goal.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.

Dreams and goals keep us young and interested in life.

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.