“Wanting more in life is only wrong when you are driven by avarice, and not a genuine and reasonable need to be comfortable.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 43
In other words
Satisfaction and desire can live in the same life. A person may value what they have and still see a real need for greater comfort, growth, or change.
Wanting more becomes harmful when nothing can be enough and gain is pursued only for its own sake. That hunger keeps moving the point of satisfaction, so each achievement quickly becomes another lack.
A reasonable desire works differently. It does not require despising the present or accepting conditions that do not fit. Gratitude can honour what is here while ambition responds to what is still needed. The motive, not the mere wish for more, helps reveal whether desire is serving the life or consuming it.
AI-generated from the author's own text.
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