Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

— Pankaj Mishra

“There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound”

— Paul David Tripp

Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those…

— Ordway Tead

There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a…

— Gautama Buddha

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

— John Fowles

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more…

— D.T. Suzuki

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as…

— Anonymous

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love…

— Virginia Woolf

When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the…

— Dalai Lama

Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and…

— Wilhelm Stekel

“The more the soul loves the word, the more craving it has after it.”

— William Gurnall

Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my…

— Stephen Covey

The law of giving and receiving is fundamental, and relates just as much to God as it does to us. As we go through…

— Selwyn Hughes

“I know a feeling like that only comes once in a lifetime, and I think you should follow your heart’s desires. I believe in…

— Ahmad Ardalan