Most of our desires tend to reveal their pettiness a few months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, or even seconds, after they have been fulfilled.

Reality is at least a billion trillions times less malleable than our desires.

Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.

A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.

To want is to suffer.

Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).

Wanting makes the mind restless.

We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.

You can choose what you want, but cannot choose what to want.