Desire Quotes - Page 19

God alone and the desire of His glory - nothing else matters.

People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.

If you have many desires your life will be interesting.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

Happiness is when there is no hunger or want at all, when we're completely free of all hunger, desire, and want.

You can develop a burning desire to succeed. How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination.

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.

Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but a body that rids itself of the desire to eat. Fasting is a time when the soul flourishes and lifts the body up with it. It rids the body of its loads and burdens and lifts it up so that God may work with it without impediment to the happiness of the spiritual entity.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.

People would never begin to pray if they could not ask for earthly things like riches and health and honours; He says to Himself: If they ask for such things the desire for something better will awaken in them, and finally they will only care about the higher things.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

Every desire has a relation to madness.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.