Quotes about desire
desire looks development
Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living. Helena Norberg-Hodge
desire elegance timeless
There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty. Helena Christensen
desire purpose firsts
Gene, on the desire to be Finny: "I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas. John Knowles
desire criminals ignoble
The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself. Johann Kaspar Lavater
desire fulfillment languish
Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
desire feels one-thing
There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire. Jo Nesbo
desire culture failing
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments. Maggie Gallagher
desire morality desirable
There are some desires that are not desirable. Gilbert K. Chesterton
desire looks alive
Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive. John Eldredge
desire liberty hunger
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store John Dryden
desire source fulfilled
A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source. Phyllis Bottome
desire want thermometers
There is no thermometer for wants!
desire fundamentals life-is
The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist. Rabindranath Tagore
desire trying way
The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out. Ramakrishna
desire contentment mindfulness
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. Ramana Maharshi
desire vigor pestilence
Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
desire underestimate bolts
Never underestimate the desire to bolt. Pema Chodron
desire foolish worldly-desires
Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires. Rajneesh
desire misery contradiction
There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don`t have one desire, you have many desires. Not only that you have many desires, you have contradictory desires. If one is fulfilled, the other, which is its contradiction, remains unfulfilled and you are in misery. If the other is fulfilled, then something else remains unfulfilled.
desire goes-on misery
Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.
desire needs natural
Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted.
desire contentment misery
Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.
desire deeds savages
Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery. Tanith Lee
desire feminism classic
I desire the things that will destroy me in the end. Sylvia Plath
desire trying atoms
Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires. Swami Vivekananda
desire body superstitions
Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.
desire found
They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire. Rumi
desire way lovers
LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being.
desire knows
In the desire of the One to know Himself, We exist.
desire poison abandon
All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you...
desire want what-you-want
Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.
desire one-love wrangling
Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.
desire sean
I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn. Trey Parker