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Desire Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire…
- Nothing perceivable is real.Your attachment is your bondage. You cannot control the future.There is no such thing as free will. Will is bondage.You identify yourself…
- Once you say 'I want to find Truth', all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical habits, feelings and…
- The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of…
- All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well...desire by itself…
- If you imagine yourself as separate from the the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience desire and fear.…
- If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea…
- My actual experience is not different. It is my evaluation and attitude that differ. I see the same world as you do, but not the…
- Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.
- Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave…
- When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.
- To see Reality is as simple as to see one’s face in a mirror. Only, the mirror must be clear and true. A quiet mind,…
- To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping others. In reality…
- Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the…
- The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and…
- You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it.…
- It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon…
- Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure…
- The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real…
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