Quotes About Desire

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.

When he has become perfectly satisfied, he has no more cravings

It is good to love God for hope of reward in this or the next world, but it is better to love God for love's sake, and the prayer goes: "Lord, I do not want wealth, nor children, nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth, but grant me this, that I may love Thee without the hope of reward — love unselfishly for love's sake.

The human mind is like that monkey, incessantly active by its own nature; then it becomes drunk with the wine of desire, thus increasing its turbulence. After desire takes possession comes the sting of the scorpion of jealousy at the success of others, and last of all the demon of pride enters the mind, making it think itself of all importance. How hard to control such a mind! (I. 174)

I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.

There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.

I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.

When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.

It's like you always think that when you get to a goal, you'll be happy. But then there is always something else that interests you.

Do something good, and people want that! Do something less good, and people want it a little less!

We tend to always want to obtain something new and something more, and we never really enjoy what we have.

I don't want the abnormal or something special. I want to have a normal life.

What I dislike about going to the club is if you're not behind that red rope, you feel you're missing something special going on.

I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.

I would love to do a reality show sometime.

Sometimes people like the bad boy.

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

Traditionally, there's been a desire to make shows relatable so the maximum number of people would think of those characters as being recognizably like them. The risk there is you can push everything in a somewhat generic direction.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.

It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

When you want something that is very dear to you, somewhere along the line, you become the child.