Quotes About Desire

Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.

But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.

People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

If you Desire Peace for Others, you'll Receive it.

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.

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.

even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished.

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

I do not want the peace which pass-eth understanding I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?

You can do anything you wish to do have anything you wish to have be anything you wish to be.

True Happiness is a state of the mind. Things that we acquire can make us momentarily happy but will not give us true freedom from our unhappiness.

...there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...

To be God's people, to love Him fervently with whole hearts, is our sole desire.

Be contented with the things of the world. Develop greed for God.

Our peace comes from remembering our wholeness and that the end of desire is the beginning of a life filled with Light.

When you spend time worrying, you're simply using your imagination to create things you don't want.

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come.

We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace.

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.