Avoiding Quote by Peter J. Carroll

“They strive to attain their wishes by every available means, instructing and compelling themselves to dishonest and difficult acts. And when their labour is…

— Seneca

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

— Horace

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“There is plenty of misery in the world, all right, but there is ample pleasure, as well. If a person forswears pleasure in order…

— Tom Robbins

Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness…

— Shantideva

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort…

— John Dewey

I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they…

— Vikas Swarup

“They, the selfish ones, are like spiritual lame people who use other beings as crutches to walk on the path of life. And they…

— Ivan Figueroa-Otero

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question…

— Kathy Acker

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none,…

— Plato