Desire Quotes

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With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire. — Sharon Salzberg
As meditation goes deep you will feel less and less desires, more and more contentment with whatsoever you have. There will be less and less… — Rajneesh
You cannot see clearly, because you are so full of expectations, hopes,desires. Your eyes are covered with many layers of dust: you need a deep… — Rajneesh
So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who… — Sun Tzu
Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear. — Brian Tracy
There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be… — Bertrand Russell
Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart. — Radhanath Swami
A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity… — Lyndon B. Johnson
States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also… — Roger Scruton
I learned years ago, I adore acting and I think it's the most alive I know how to be - almost - but I really… — Kathleen Turner
On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives. — Marlene Dietrich
The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise. — Tacitus
Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the… — William Shakespeare
I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing… — Rowan Atkinson
The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip;… — Charles R. Swindoll
The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms. — Thomas Sowell
Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our… — Earl Warren
The desire for fame tempts even noble minds. — Saint Augustine
Wherever there is desire and ambition, you are in bondage. — Rajneesh
The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be… — Rajneesh
Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free… — Rajneesh
Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with the past, who is absolutely… — Rajneesh
Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance as you are.… — Rajneesh
Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for… — Rajneesh
The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away from the Divine, from prayer,… — Rajneesh

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