Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lawrence Durrell

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Sophocles

Always desire to learn something useful

Soren Kierkegaard

Genius never desires what does not exist.

Swami Vivekananda

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

Tony Robbins

Life is the dance between what you desire most, and what you fear most

Thomas Troward

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

Toni Morrison

I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.

Tim Ferriss

Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

Tanith Lee

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.

Sylvia Plath

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

Swami Vivekananda

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

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.

Rumi

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

Rumi

LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being.

Rumi

In the desire of the One to know Himself, We exist.

Rumi

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...

Rumi

Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.

Rumi

Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.

Todd Gitlin

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

Todd Gitlin

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Stephen Covey

Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

Thomas Merton

You are made in the image of what you desire.

Tony Kushner

If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with

Steven Erikson

Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.

Stephen Harper

Faith teaches that there is a right and wrong beyond mere opinion or desire. Most importantly, it teaches us that freedom is not an end in itself, that how freedom is exercised matters as much as freedom itself

Stanislaw Lem

Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure.

Sun Tzu

Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.

Richard Simmons

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself.

Susan Sontag

Desire has no history...

Ramakrishna

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.

Ramana Maharshi

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

Sean Parker

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet.