crave for
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Examples
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.
Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.
O Paradise! O Paradise! Who doth not crave for rest? Who would not seek the happy land Where they that love are blest?