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Desire Quotes by Frederick Lenz
- When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.
- If you live in the city, it is necessary to get out of it on weekends. Then you will realize that most of the thoughts…
- When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads…
- This world is not a middle point in evolution. It's one step down from the middle point in evolution. This is the world of desire…
- People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their…
- The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are…
- Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy…
- Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.
- Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon as they experience…
- The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it.…
- It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in…
- Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.
- As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that…
- The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world -…
- You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus…
- You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled by their desires,…
- You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.
- Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.
- Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary…
- If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind,…
- Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment…
- A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the…
- We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait
- We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of…
- I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends, lovers, enemies. I…
More Desire Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly… — Chinua Achebe
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine