#attainment

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#desire #beauty

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#diminishing #enjoy #every #every man #fellow

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#difficult #gracefully #grow #happily #old

If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

#closely #daily #daily life #each #individual

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

#attainment #awaits #continuous #desires #feast