Ann VoskampFullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
About This Quote
To enjoy life, it is necessary to let go of desires. The only way to get the most out of life is to not want what you can’t have. When you stop desiring things, you will find that you are able to give. It is only when you feel like the world has everything that you are truly at peace with yourself.
Some Similar Quotes
- Wisdom is not increased by acquiring more information, but by increasing the capacity of seeing.
- Evil is something you need to fight until it ceases trying to control you.
- Love has no color, love has no language and love has no religion.
- …blissfulness is the summit of contentment…
- Not every good idea is God's perfect will for you; it may need discerning, wisdom and experience to tell the difference.
More Quotes By Ann Voskamp
- I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
- From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
- I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat...
- The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all...
- Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in...