"Our necessities never equal our wants...." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Our necessities never equal our wants.
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More on Desire
“The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.”
“My love is as a fever, longing stillFor that which longer nurseth the disease,Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please.My reason, the physician to my love,Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,Hath left me, and I desperate now approveDesire is death, which physic did except.”
“Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.”
More on Needs
“Explore your web: the needs, the beliefs, and the emotions that are controlling you so there's more of you to give and so you can appreciate what's driving other people. It's the only way our world's going to change.”
“There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.”
“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.”