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.