Desires Quotes

1790 Desires quotes by 1069 unique authors

Man is almost mad-mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because… — Rajneesh
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain,… — Robert Collier
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If you have many desires your life will be interesting. — Jenny Holzer
The life of a sannyasin should be a life of no expectations. And then every moment is such a bliss, such a benediction, because whatsoever… — Rajneesh
Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one things standing between you and… — Rajneesh
Meditation is your awakening. The moment you awake, sleep disappears and with it all the dreams, all the projections, all expectations, all desires. Suddenly you… — Rajneesh
You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live… — Rajneesh
Whatsoever you are waiting for, you are waiting in vain. It is not going to happen, and what is going to happen has nothing to… — Rajneesh
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying… — Samuel Alexander
He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing! — Seneca the Younger
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their… — Nathanael Emmons
The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into… — Betty Friedan
In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses with… — Alexis de Tocqueville
And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened… — Henry Fielding
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real… — Erich Fromm
Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability… — Will Durant
Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him. — Constantin Stanislavski
Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep… — Polybius
There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only… — Charles Bukowski
President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on Castro's Cuba. He abandoned our friends in Poland… — Mitt Romney
Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system… — Kent Beck
It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of… — John Paul Stevens
When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities and is subjected to questioning . . . he… — Earl Warren

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