Desire Quote by Lao Tzu Download Open image ““He whose (desires) are few gets them; he whose (desires) are many goes astray.”” — Lao Tzu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire
“The one who has become worthy of people’s reverence has no desires. The one who is unworthy of reverence has desires.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“I desire that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible; but I would have each one be very careful… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“He was a consuming fire. His passion, his desires, all seemed to overtake the desires of those around him.” — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
“God puts desires into your heart. His desires will actually become your desires, and your desires will be His.” — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
“Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams or desires” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“When he thought of all he’d seen, done and experienced in his life, all he’d gained, lost, desired and agonized over, he found it… — D.E. Sievers Copy Share Image
“There are some who come willingly," I said, as if I had not heard him, "not out of love, but out of sickness and… — Martine Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Is it not eminently just that I should give myself entirely and without reserve to Him Who drew me out of nothing, and Who… — S.J Father John Nicholas Grou Copy Share Image
“Therefore the sage desires what (other men) do not desire, and does not prize things difficult to get; he learns what (other men) do… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“If you show yourself, you will not be seen. If you affirm yourself, you will not shine. If you boast, you will have no… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space (for the axle), that the use of the wheel… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“To know and yet (think) we do not know is the highest (attainment); not to know (and yet think) we do know is a… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent. He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“If you are depressed, you are living in the past; if you are anxious, you are living in the present; if you are at… — Lao Tzu 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
