Desire Quotes

Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.

As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.

Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.

When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power.

There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.

If you live in the city, it is necessary to get out of it on weekends. Then you will realize that most of the thoughts and desires you have are not yours. You will see what is you.

When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads to frustration.

Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon as they experience passes, the happiness passes.

It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.

If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.

Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.

A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the spectrum of human consciousness.

Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.

And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?

My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

At the heart of mankind's existence is the desire to be intimate and to be loved by another. Marriage is designed to meet that need for intimacy and love.

The circumstances of your life are neither good nor bad. They are appropriate to the needs of your soul. They may or may not be what your personality desires.

The heart of the matter is that there is nothing the matter with our hearts. It is not love that is to blame. But each of us has resistance to the very love we desire.

Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?

Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished.

In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.

People have to have a desire within themselves to know who they are and the reason why they are in this body.

I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.

In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.

A small heart hath small desires.

Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]

To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature.

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.