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Desire Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.
- Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it.…
- Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like…
- Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used to say, attachment…
- So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.
- This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and…
- There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress.
- One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of…
- Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it…
- We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks to dig a…
- Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness.…
- Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you are not perfect…
- Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of…
- Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle…
- [The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.
- It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any…
- Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in…
- We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God,…
- Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not…
- You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work.…
- Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.
- Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
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