Quotes About Desires

Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.

Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

Of course, not all desires lead to happiness. Desires can and do lead to pain and frustration.

Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions

Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.

Si quieres que tus deseos duren, tienes que pedir algo que te haga feliz y no la felicidad.

Honesty is the key to Happiness. Be always truthful to yourself, to your feelings, emotions, needs and desires & to others, no matter what!

When we're in touch with our body, we're attuned to our intuition, needs, and desires and will be in the best position to make evolutionary choices for our health and wellbeing.

To rise above the conflicting desires of others, there must be no conflict about your own.

Only by maintaining positive thoughts, by dispelling doubt and negativity, will you impress your desires upon the universe, making it bend to your will.

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires.

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.