Desire Quotes

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide.

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires.

Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less. These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, Now.

The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness.

It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

I knew that I had seen, had seen at lastThat girl my unremembering nights hold fastOr else my dreams that flyIf I should rub an eye,And yet in flying fling into my meatA crazy juice that makes the pulses beat.

I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

When there is no desire, all things are at peace

In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

This liberty is all that I request.

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.

How many things are there which I do not want.

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

One of the greatest motivators is desire. If the desire is strong enough you will do whatever it takes to achieve. Just connect your actions with your true desires.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Free thyself from the mighty attraction-The maddening wine of love, the charm of sex.Break the harp! Forward, with the ocean's cry!. . .

Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."

Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it

Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

Happiness is a myth we seek,If manifested surely irks;Like river speeding to the plain,On its arrival slows and murks.For man is happy only inHis aspiration to the heights;When he attains his goal, he coolsAnd longs for other distant flights.

I have found that people who have a passion or a strong will for what they want to achieve, and who do not allow others to smear or sully their inner pictures of what they want to manifest, always seem to get what they desire in their lives.

Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to take care of the large; who doesn't have enough with enough is at the margin or virtue, for the physical body lives from one day to another and if it gets what it really needs, there will be time for meditation, as long as if we try to give it everything it desires, endless will be the task.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

Fear is the fatal killer of desire.

Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.

It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.

What can books of men that wiveIn a dragon-guarded land,Paintings of the dolphin-drawnSea-nymphs in their pearly wagonsDo, but awake a hope to live...?

It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

I wish the rent Was heaven sent.

The fewer the desires, the more peace.

Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce an inner conflict between now and the projected future. This greatly reduces the quality of our life. Are you a 'habitual waiter'?

Life loiters at the book's first page,--Ah! could we turn the leaf.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

What can be shown?What true love be?All could be known or shownIf Time were but gone.

I am smiling at myself today There's no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left Free from all desire I sit quietly like Earth My silent cry echoes like thunder Throughout the universe I am not worried about it I know it will be heard by no one Except me.

If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it.