Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Is language all about desire? Is desire all about loss? Would we ever need to say anything if we never lost anything?… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also… — Denton Cooley Copy Share Image
“We’re all the same under our skin, aren’t we? We’re all wanting things we don’t understand. Things we can’t even name. The… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
“It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion… — Anne Fontaine Copy Share Image
“When in my early twenties, I first heard Ghalib’s ‘Hazaron Khwahishein Aisi’ in Jagjit Singh’s rendition for the TV serial Ghalib, I… — Arundhati Ghosh Copy Share Image
It is our own pain, and our own desire to be free of it, that alerts us to the suffering of the… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
I'm sure a handful of people can relate to that experience of having some kind of romantic encounter - the event of… — John Maus Copy Share Image
He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
The idea of feeling displaced, and never feeling safe anywhere in the world, where you always feel like you're safer if you're… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
I always said that I would provide for my son differently to how I was provided for from my father. That was… — Callum Wilson Copy Share Image
“No amount of self-sufficiency could dispel the craving he still felt for that person we no longer talked about; that person who'd… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is… — Baba Hari Dass Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can… — William Law Copy Share Image
“Desiree. It's like falling in love every night and having your heart broken every morning... Having more memory is just a way… — Craig Clevenger Copy Share Image
I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force;… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“I don't think that science and the paranormal have to be at war; in fact, it's crucial that they work together. It… — Chelsie Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the most ancient forms of prayer. To write is to believe communication is possible that other people are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
By playing on people's desire to belong to groups, Facebook creates a new, inclusive society. After all, Facebook is not like Harvard… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety; desire only… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I have lots of desires - good body, nice skin, cute, beautiful, knows how to cook, concentrates on her work, a girl… — Seungri Copy Share Image
I really connect with Victoria Beckham's desire to do something that she wants to do. Of the girls we've been talking about,… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
