Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

Joseph Addison

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

Paulo Coelho

Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve.

Paulo Coelho

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.

Paulo Coelho

He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

Paulo Coelho

The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.

Paulo Coelho

Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success

Richelle Mead

I decided the Alchemists needed an entire department devoted to handling Adrian Ivashkov.

Paulo Coelho

God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.

James Beattie

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.

Bryant H. McGill

There are enough resources in the world for everyone.

Alain de Botton

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

William Shakespeare

My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.

David Niven

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

Gordon Graham

There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.

Jack Bruce

Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes. / Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment.

Democritus

If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Sharon Cannon

Part of it is a desire for lifelong learning. Part of it is for a job requirement. Part of it is for educational goals. Some of it is to earn more money.

Bill Watterson

Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience.

Christine McVie

Suddenly the desire to write tricked back into my life again, not that I would want to tour or go on the road. Once you have been writing all of your life, it is part of what you do. What else do you do?

Paul Jewell

Overall, I thought we were more than worth a point, we showed great determination and desire not to lose the game.

Ken Williams

Our ultimate desire ... was to keep this team intact. It may turn out that someone overwhelms us with an offer for Jose.

Dennis Hastert

out of respect for the office of the presidency and for a desire to hear about the state of our nation.

Debra Roberts

Remove the shackles from me and set me free, free to be the woman you desire me to be.

Thomas Bauer

Reserves can't have any role in earnings targets or the desire to meet an earnings target.