Desire Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster Download Open image ““Rejection of desire is liberating. Renunciation is a form of power.”” — Kilroy J. Oldster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Desire Liberating Desire-quotes Liberating Liberating Renunciation Rejection Rejection Desire Renunciation Renunciation Form Stoicism
“I find few more satisfying exhibitions of power and control than deliberately creating desire - only to capriciously deny it...” — Rika Copy Share Image
“Desire lies dormant in our hearts; slowly it keeps getting stronger and ignites the will to succeed.” — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
“I have less desire to change things than to change my perception of them.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“The extinction of desire stands in stark contrast to the redemption of desire.” — Joshua Ryan Butler Copy Share Image
“Change is the most beneficial power available to you, simply change the things you don't like, replacing them with your true desires.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
“it is certain that you can do what you want to do; the desire to do it is proof that you have within you… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
“...Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Wisdom warns against desire, but there is power in wanting, power that can fuel the will and keep lit that precious torch, hope.” — Eugene Utley Copy Share Image
“Disharmony at home or work is toxic to a person’s physical disposition and mental health.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The emotional ingredients that sustain long-term relationships are kindness, thoughtfulness, and compassion.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Time is inexplicable because it moves – clicks away – at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into the present.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness; we take… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A period of darkness is essential in order to expand personal awareness. Experiencing sadness and loss makes a person appreciative of life, more tenderhearted,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A person writes similar to how a blind person uses brail. We grope along the palpable corridors of the mind’s organic texture to locate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“People frequently ask me why I work so hard - prolong hours, infrequent vacations, and never calling in sick or missing work for any… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The ego is the culmination of our preferences and dislikes. Our ego represents the firm edges of how we perceive ourselves. An ego death… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Witnessing the moonrise each month, a person cannot resist noting a modest sense of optimism tugging at his or her enclosed capsule of bodily… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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