Desires Quotes

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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature… — Immanuel Kant
He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to… — Epictetus
Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose… — William Wordsworth
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. — John Calvin
...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight. — Dante Alighieri
Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us… — Walter Russell
There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires.… — Walter Russell
The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into… — John Dewey
The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know. — Bertrand Russell
There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be… — Samuel Johnson
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until… — Michael Faraday
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet;… — Sri Chinmoy
In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business,… — Maggie Gallagher
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… — Swami Vivekananda
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
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
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 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
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
Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted. — Rajneesh
Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply… — Rajneesh

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