Desires Quotes

1790 Desires quotes by 1069 unique authors

Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere. Seeing that... And this is not a… — Rajneesh
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can… — Benjamin Franklin
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. — Oliver Goldsmith
While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Events are influenced by our very great desires. — William James
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts... — David Seabury
Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires.… — Robert Collier
Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that… — Adolf Hitler
Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person. — Basil Hume
"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the… — Alphonsus Liguori
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest. — Thomas Sowell
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. — Oscar Wilde
The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true… — Bernard de Mandeville
Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires change throughout the course of a life, but agreement… — David Simon
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart… — Mahatma Gandhi
There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires. — Marcel Proust
What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward… — Walt Whitman
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. — Seneca the Younger
Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer? — Saint Augustine
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist. — Anton Chekhov
Freedom is on the march in this world. I believe everybody in the Middle East desires to live in freedom. I believe women in the… — George W. Bush
Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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