Quotes About Desires

The refinement of an individual or a society is measured by the yardstick of how well greed and desires are controlled.

John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between one's immediate desires and long-learned morality.

I'd describe 'Born to Kill' as a 'study in psychopathy', it's very much in the heads of our main protagonist, Sam, a young boy dealing with dark, twisted psychotic desires. It's also a coming-of-age story.

Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.

Our civilizations have evolved. The solutions we can find for the things that keep us somewhat primitive and base and ugly in our desires can improve and become more sophisticated. Sometimes there's a disconnect between that. My car can drive, but we can't get rid of violence.

Humanist thinkers such as Rousseau convinced us that our own feelings and desires were the ultimate source of meaning and that our free will was, therefore, the highest authority of all.

Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires

Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

The Yogis say that the man who has discriminating powers, the man of good sense, sees through all that are called pleasure and pain, and knows that they come to all, and that one follows and melts into the other; he sees that men follow an ignis fatuus all their lives, and never succeed in fulfilling their desires.

It teaches that desires and wants are in man, that the power of supply is also in man; and that wherever and whenever a desire, a want, a prayer has been fulfilled, it was out of this infinite magazine that the supply came, and not from any supernatural being.

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

wy wszyscy, którzy uruchamiacie od czasu do czasu swoje leniwe zwoje mózgowe, podlegacie takim samym pragnieniom i ambicjom. Takim samym strachom i odruchom samozag?ady. Takim samym buntom i rezygnacjom.

Cia?a mamy zwierz?ce, lecz aspiracje boskie. Hormony przekroczy?y bariery postawione im przez biologi?, przez prawa ?wiata zwierz?t. Hormony nasze produkuj? enzymy g?odów nie do zaspokojenia, marze? nie do zrealizowania, t?sknot nie do zag?uszenia.

it was true that i wanted to be in a romantic relationship with someone 'out there.' it was even more deeply true that the communion i longed for was available in that very moment. if i remained awake to this communion, desires might energize and guide my attention, but they wouldn't blind me to the fullness and beauty that are already here.

Spirituality means both accepting and mastering one's instincts: living one's natural desires in the light of one's principles is a prayer. It is never a misdeed, nor is it hypocrisy.

My dreams are all follies.

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

The universe began as an enormous breath being held. Who knows why, but whatever the reason, I'm glad it did, because I owe my existence to that fact. All my desires and ruminations are no more and no less than eddy currents generated by the gradual exhalation of our universe. And until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.