Advertisements
Desire Quotes
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements






Advertisements
Text Quotes
This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self (Desire Quotes)
All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy (Desire Quotes)
Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it’s the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common (Desire Quotes)
All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy (Desire Quotes)
I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire (Desire Quotes)
The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability (Desire Quotes)
If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall be fairly confident of ourselves and may, with any luck, be confident of others. Our object will be to enjoy our selves. But to make sure that our names are permanently on the cast list, it will be advisable to be of interest to others. This aim must never be confused with the desire to be popular (Desire Quotes)
The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character (Desire Quotes)
All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms (Desire Quotes)
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her (Desire Quotes)
There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it (Desire Quotes)
A caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love, in jail ; a capitulation to the one you’ve conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day (Desire Quotes)
The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men (Desire Quotes)
A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision (Desire Quotes)
We don’t have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow (Desire Quotes)
... I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved (Desire Quotes)
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault (Desire Quotes)
As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything (Desire Quotes)
If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom (Desire Quotes)
Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything (Desire Quotes)
If you don’t get the ending you desire... have faith in the magic of new beginnings (Desire Quotes)
Following your heart’s desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go (Desire Quotes)
Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers (Desire Quotes)
Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don’t desire, but they’re inevitable, we have to face them. It’s what being human is all about (Desire Quotes)
A man’s drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity (Desire Quotes)
To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death (Desire Quotes)
Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in (Desire Quotes)
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity (Desire Quotes)
Obsession led me to write. It’s been that way with every book I’ve ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge (Desire Quotes)
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs (Desire Quotes)