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61 " I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them. "
62 " Before strongly desiring anything we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner. "
63 " Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it. "
64 " Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. "
65 " I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness. "
66 " So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love. "
