Desire Quotes - Page 167

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.

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.

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 turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary to overcome both attraction and repulsion to still the mind.

My great and exceeding joy over these stupendous achievements, especially over the abolition of slavery (which had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life), was slightly tinged with a feeling of sadness.

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.

We are not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that so long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

I do have a strong desire to make films that will take the audience to some uncharted places both tonally and emotionally.

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.