Desire Quotes - Page 58

It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I’m not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.

At Christmas, I no more desire a rose.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

With passion, if you see the first asparagus of the springtime and you become passionate about it, so much the better, but three weeks later, when you’ve seen that asparagus every day now, passions have subsided. What’s going to make you treat the asparagus the same? It’s the desire.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.

There is something so sad about going online and seeing almost everyone shouting ‘Notice me, notice me!’ Which is such a human desire—to be acknowledged. But me responding to that with some sort of ‘You’re noticed, you’re seen’ only perpetuates the loneliness. Because I’m not seeing you; I’m not noticing you. And whoever you are, you so deserve to be noticed and valued. I feel lucky to have not grown up with the Internet because it forced me to get out, struggle and be so messy.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.

You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.

You don't need attention to write. All you need is passion for your work and an overwhelming desire to tell a story you genuinely care about. Readers can sense your sincerity and it separates you from pretenders.