Craving Quote by William James Download Open image “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Craving Desire Human nature Nature Nature of man
“what draws us to act is not the sensation we receive from the reward itself, but the need to alleviate the craving for that… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound” — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. For the demands of our released expectations lead us inevitably into… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
“The more the soul loves the word, the more craving it has after it.” — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
When I look at you all I see is heartbreak waiting to happen. And I can't tell if it's because of love. Or loneliness.… — Ream Copy Share Image
People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and… — Wilhelm Stekel Copy Share Image
Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
