Moses Mendelssohn Quotes

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.

Beautiful things make people happy.

I'm supremely grateful and seriously pleased that readers enjoy my words.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

To love beauty is to see light.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite.

So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.

I like to admire. I'm a fan of beauty.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

We shouldn't want things and we should be satisfied with no thing. Furthermore, we don't deserve whatever we would like to have in our lives because we think we have been bad, we feel insufficient, or somebody else has convinced us that we're not worthy.

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.

What I want is not to want what isn't mine

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.

You have nothing. One should never allow themselves to think that they have, one can just touch - to have is to lack appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again.

There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of the bulldog and the dismantling of the cheap villa, both of which are responsible for a deal of our contentment amid ugliness.

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.