Quotes about desire
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 sean
I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn. Trey Parker
desire my-friends good-will
I desire the good-will of all, whether hitherto my friends or not. Ulysses S. Grant
desire purpose parenthood
Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood. Robin G. Collingwood
desire structure desire-to-change
There is a deep desire to change the power structure. Robert Reich
desire sometimes seems
It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it. Robert Collier
desire demand heels
Supply always comes on the heels of demand.
desire
Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it? Richard Paul Evans
desire succeed different
It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions. Rebecca West
desire habit virtuous
It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits. Saint Augustine
desire assuming courses
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it. Victoria Woodhull
desire lasts necks
I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living. Victor Hugo
desire shameful
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
desire advancement moral
There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.
desire cruelty
It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them. Veronica Roth
desire comic decided
I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it. Rita Rudner
desire
Desire awakens only to things that are thought possible. Rene Descartes
desire littles matter
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.
desire unseen motto
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen
desire fewer
The fewer desires, the more peace. Thomas F. Wilson
desire different desire-to-live
However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free. Thomas Sowell
desire outcomes problem
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? Tim Ferriss
desire influential individual
In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty. Russell M. Nelson
desire selfishness ease
Be not in the desire of thine own ease. Saadi
desire want remedy
The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
desire battle comfort
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. Stonewall Jackson
desire want useless
You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless. Storm Jameson
desire ability determine
One's desire, not ability, determines success. Vince Lombardi