Desire Quote by Laozi

“Only for those prepared to leave their familiar life behind, will life emerge in a new gown of continually expanding beauty and perfection. But…

— Hilma af Klint

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

— Laozi

“The source of stillness is in emptiness. All things and the changes they go through are but temporary conditions, which finally return to nothingness,…

— Chen Kaiguo

“All desires originate to seek betterment unconsciously. In awareness, the same desires dissolve into realization.”

— Gian Kumar

“It is only through silent awareness that our physical and mental nature can change. This change is completely spontaneous. If we make an effort…

— Jean Klein

“The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing…

— Franklin Foer

“The desire for sudden change and the thought of their realization by force often appears among men like a disease and gains ground mainly…

— Ivo Andrić

“In this stillness that is at the same time movement, in this darkness that is at the same time light, change is found not…

— Michael Richardson

“Happiness from the fulfillment of induced desires can only be temporary.”

— Tapan Ghosh

“We are, therefore, seeking how the mind can follow a smooth and steady course, well disposed to itself, happily regarding its own condition and…

— Seneca

Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

— Bhagavad Gita

“The idea of the Eternal Return can be fully grasped only by a man endowed with several chronic, hence recurrent infirmities, and who thus…

— Emil Cioran