Quotes About Desires

The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

If you have many desires your life will be interesting.

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

People hesitate to follow their desires because they don't know how to divide their soul from their spirit.

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

My desires sprang forth as a mighty sun - all embracing - associating in the form - vortex, to enjoy ALL consciousness

The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.

Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul.

Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.