Desire Quote by Joan Z. Borysenko Download Open image “True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.” — Joan Z. Borysenko ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Happiness Inspirational Peacefulness Pleasure Satisfying
“Being peaceful may not be exciting like war, but it is the bliss and joy of life that you really enjoy.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Being peaceful doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” — Krystal Volney Copy Share Image
When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go. — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm - it comes from becoming still - in order to reflect and meditate on our inner wisdom… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Peace is something like happiness; Your happiness shouldn't depend on the situation you're in nor on the circumstances that surround you. In the same… — CJoybell C Copy Share Image
Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Every act of kindness and compassion toward others gets multiplied when they, in turn, pass it on. One by one the world becomes a… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past. — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Learning to listen to ourselves is a way of learning to love ourselves. — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Nature is another important aspect of nourishing the soul. After a hike in the mountains where we live, for instance, I feel a remarkable… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Everyday brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace. — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
The stereotype of aging as a progressive loss of function is generally true only for people who stop functioning. — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image