Contradiction Quote by Anonymous

The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring - and you go on…

— Anonymous

If you have desires, try to look - are those desires the cause of your misery? Nobody wants misery, but nobody is willing to…

— Anonymous

“It is the very nature of desire that it remains unfulfilled. It will arise again and again, and the more you try to fulfill…

— Osho

If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Buddha says this is how one should be - no desire, because all desires are futile. They are about the future; life is in…

— Rajneesh

Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.

— Allen Wheelis

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none,…

— Plato

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

— John Cleese

And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our…

— Don Altman

Desire means the way to go out; desire is the path that leads you out. If your mind is still desiring, you cannot move…

— Anonymous

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things…

— Anonymous

Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.

— Danielle LaPorte