Quotes About Desires

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

In the end, having no compass for his desires, he yielded to his nature.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace.

Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.

The fewer desires, the more peace.

We ultimately don't get what we want, we get what we are.

Satisfaction doesn't come from needs and desires or fulfilling them, it comes from being yourself, being true.

Psalm 37:44 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

If your will is your deepest pure desires, then it will manifest in its own due time.

Hope is the boat we ride to reach the shore of our desires.

Our levels of consciousness and awareness define our wants and needs. When we achieve higher levels of consciousness, our wants cease to exist.

Life is such a journey on a sea of constant waves and splashing desires.