Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It's unfair of me to tell anyone what to think. I make myself for myself to get out my own desire to… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
I agree that my single-minded approach was a failing in life, but if I upset people, it was never intentional - it… — Geoffrey Boycott Copy Share Image
“According to them, it is better to have a calm mind free of desires than to have a restless mind full of… — Om Swami Copy Share Image
“Some of you were born with talent, some weren't. Some of you are lucky and got everything for free, some of you… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
The natural desire of the human mind is to become special - to become special in the ways of the world, to… — Osho Copy Share Image
Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work,… — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
When you don't flow freely with life in the present moment, it usually means that you're holding on to a past moment.… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“When my animal instincts desire the forbidden, I feel pleasure in seeking them without constrictions placed by laws, worldly or religious” — Rochelle Magee Copy Share Image
“Actually, we’re with the United States Army stationed in Germany. My friend Paul comes here about every two to three weeks to… — Karl Braungart Copy Share Image
We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“In their beginnings, events preserve the potential that they lose in their completion. Desire prolongs itself so long as it is not… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it. — Dan Flavin Copy Share Image
“He wants the minute and secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Most people share a yearning to be something bigger than them. Something they can be excited about and something that will challenge… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“of high-quality polyunsaturated fatty acids. They are very filling, and consuming these products will usually reduce your sugar cravings, simply because you… — Mary Anderson Copy Share Image
Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When you believe, or are led to believe, you are unable to act upon the greatest desires of the soul, the result… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“Bears find themselves at the spot where two deep-seated but contradictory human impulses collide: the desire to feel protected from unforeseeable danger… — Bernd Brunner Copy Share Image
Dont live by d standards of dis world. nor by d expectations of other people. Person who follows d crowd usually gets… — Vikas Runwal Copy Share Image
Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
“Our desire for a cause that will allow us to commit ourselves mind and body to its banner is a cry for… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
“I love this constant motion between ' Solitude' and ' Loneliness '. On one end it's the desire and achievement of being… — Anubhav Mishra Copy Share Image
“A man asked Gautama Buddha, "I want happiness." Buddha said, "First remove "I," that's Ego, then remove "want," that's Desire. See now… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I believe in love at first sight… But it’s not the first moment you lay eyes on a person, it’s the moment… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
