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Quotes About Desires

The power of our subconscious thoughts and desires attracts good luck.
~ Debasish Mridha
Our minds control us with desires and fears.
~ Debasish Mridha
Never lose hope. Never forget the power of intentions and desires.
~ Debasish Mridha
You are nothing but your desires, dreams, thoughts, and beliefs
~ Debasish Mridha
If your needs are little, you are rich enough.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Control your desires as if your life depended on them, then your life will do.
~ Nityananda Das, Divine Union
Curiosity is the fire of desires that burns the dust to reveal the diamond.
~ Debasish Mridha
Death is the final dance of dreams, desires, loves and hopes.
~ Debasish Mridha
If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.
~ Lord Boyd-Orr
Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal goal.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
The law of attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you FEEL.
~ Esther Hicks
Create a Vision Board .. pictures of what you want to attract .. every day look at it and get into the feeling state of already having acquired these wants.
~ Rhonda Byrne
Your life is not a result of your potential, skills or desires, but of your consistent expectations and actions, which largely flow from your values and beliefs.
~ Christopher Babson
You can't truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are - what motivates them...?
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
Our destiny changes with our thoughts we shall become what we wish to become do what we wish to do when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].
~ Joseph Pilates
The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life.
~ Joseph Murphy
Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
~ Willa Cather
The problem is that "bad men obey their lusts as servants obey their masters," and because they cannot control their desires, they can never find contentment.4
~ William B. Irvine
A much better, albeit less obvious way to gain satisfaction is not by working to satisfy our desires but by working to master them. In particular, we need to take steps to slow down the desire-formation process within us. Rather than working to fulfill whatever desires we find in our head, we need to work at preventing certain desires from forming and eliminating many of the desires that have formed. And rather than wanting new things, we need to work at wanting the things we already have. This
~ William B. Irvine
This is because the desire for luxuries is not a natural desire. Natural desires, such as a desire for water when we are thirsty, can be satisfied; unnatural desires cannot.12 Therefore, when we find ourselves wanting something, we should pause to ask whether the desire is natural or unnatural, and if it is unnatural, we should think twice about trying to satisfy it.
~ William B. Irvine
Epictetus: "Always to seek to conquer myself rather than fortune, to change my desires rather than the established order, and generally to believe that nothing except our thoughts is wholly under our control, so that after we have done our best in external matters, what remains to be done is absolutely impossible, at least as far as we are concerned.
~ William B. Irvine
And although wealth can procure for us physical luxuries and various pleasures of the senses, it can never bring us contentment or banish our grief.
~ William B. Irvine