Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rene Descartes

Desire awakens only to things that are thought possible.

Rene Descartes

Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses.

Rene Descartes

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

Thomas F. Wilson

The fewer desires, the more peace.

Thomas Sowell

However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.

Thomas Pogge

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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

Susan Sontag

Desire has no history...

Rajneesh

Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.

Rajneesh

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.

Rajneesh

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.

Rajneesh

Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted.

Rajneesh

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.

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

Sinead O'Connor

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

Simone Weil

The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.

Simone Weil

We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.

Tippi Hedren

I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It is really awful.

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

Saadi

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

Saadi

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

Stonewall Jackson

If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.

Storm Jameson

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

Sri Aurobindo

All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

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?

Russell M. Nelson

In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

Stephen Colbert

We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.