"desire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- All sentient beings desire happiness and do not desire misery.
- I had so long desired this tremendous honor and happiness that I feared I endured hallucination.
- I desire thy happiness first of all, but thee is starting out on a dangerous path.
- For we constantly desire happiness; and whatever we feel of uneasiness, so much it is certain we want of happiness; even in our own opinion, let our state and condition otherwise be what it will.
- From what has been said, it is easy to give an account how it comes to pass, that, though all men desire happiness, yet their wills carry them so contrarily; and consequently some of them to what is evil.
- After a blowup, remind yourself what you really desire happiness, peace, and fulfillment to help you get over your frustration.
- And now, O son of Axiochus, let me put a question to you: Do not all men desire happiness?
- And yet, perhaps, this is one of those ridiculous questions which I am afraid to ask, and which ought not to be asked by a sensible man: for what human being is there who does not desire happiness?
- In 1833, Henry L. Benning, an aspiring young lawyer, wrote a friend: "Above all things (I advise if you desire ease and happiness) marry.
- Piron's view is that, while one may desire happiness, desire is not enough.
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