Desire Quotes - Page 129

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.

When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.

I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.

An angel is a nonphysical being who has no ego - so we know angels are not human. An angel is a pure essence of the Creator's desire to connect with human beings.

There are always some of us, not a few, in every generation, who go over wholly to the green flag. It is such a passionless fealty, so reticent a love, that neither do trumpets sound for it nor quarrels arise from it. Only, you will find that those who have pledged allegiance are happy about it in quiet.

One of the keystones of romantic love - and also of the ecstatic religion practiced by mystics - is the powerful desire to become one with the beloved.

The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

Sincere desire and worthiness invite the spirit of revelation into our lives.

Losing is a habit. So is winning. Now lets work on permanently instilling winning habits into your life. Eliminate sabotaging habits and instill the needed positive habits, and you can take your life in any direction you desire, to the heights of your greatest imagination.

Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.

Become what our Heavenly Father desires you to become.

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.

What I was being told in my 20s in the close-quartered, male-ego-infused work space, was that I had to stop reacting with my emotions to sexual desire towards me. The change, in other words, had to be made in me.

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.

We live in a funny time, a funny era, when desire, to be adult desire, has to be conceived as sexual. And that didn't used to be the case. Sexuality is a social construction as much as anything else and I think the realities of sexuality don't always fit into the social constructions that we have, and we live in a goal-oriented time - on all fronts.

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

It's strange what desire will make foolish people do.

Some people are very earnest after the things of God, and he who seeks finds, and the more he seeks in the right direction the more he finds. He that is dilatory in searching after the things of God, obtains but little; he that is diligent obtains much. All may receive it, but they must obtain it in the way that God has appointed, all receiving their measure according to their diligence and desire; but the spirit is the same.