Craving Quote by Eric Hoffer Download Open image “Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.” — Eric Hoffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Craving Craving Having Desire Giving Having Mother Mother Mother Reckless Oneself Parenting Reckless Reckless Giving
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“If we are taken over by craving, no matter who or what is before us, all we can see is how it might satisfy… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“God made us capable of craving so we’d have an unquenchable desire for more of Him, and Him alone. Nothing changes until we make… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“People sometimes imagine that without desire there would be no enjoyment. The opposite is true. When you're caught up in craving, you never really… — Lorne Ladner Copy Share Image
“There is a discrepancy between our craving and the world we live in, between our expectations and the way things are. We want the… — Rupert Gethin Copy Share Image
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. For the demands of our released expectations lead us inevitably into… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The more the soul loves the word, the more craving it has after it.” — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
When I look at you all I see is heartbreak waiting to happen. And I can't tell if it's because of love. Or loneliness.… — Ream Copy Share Image
People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and… — Wilhelm Stekel Copy Share Image
Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
