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Desire Quotes by Mark Epstein
- Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.
- Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds…
- To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.
- Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to…
- Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I…
- There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original…
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