62 quotes
“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end”
— Sylvia Plath
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
— Epicurus
“The key to happiness is the reduction of desires.”
— Amma
“Time is what we want most but what we use worst.”
— William Penn
“And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
— Paulo Coelho
“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”
— Germaine de Staël
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”
— Seneca
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”
“The heart desires compassion as the thirsty desert desires the rain to bring it to life”
— Hafiz
“And when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it”
“An original is a creation motivated by desire any reproduction is motivated by necessity”
— Man Ray
“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”
— Naval Ravikant
“Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.”
— Lao Tzu
“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”
— John Stuart Mill
“Desire is the starting point of all achievement not a hope not a wish but a keen pulsating desire.”
— Napoleon Hill
“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.”
— Julia Cameron
“Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
— Plato
“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential — these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”
— Confucius
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
— Jack Canfield
“May you have the courage to listen to the voice of desire that disturbs you when you have settled for something safe”
— John ODonohue
“The number one reason most people do not get what they want is that they do not know what they want.”
— T. Harv Eker
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
— Socrates
“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want”
“The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all mans slavery.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“When you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“I am awfully greedy I want everything from life I want to be a woman and to be a man to have many friends and to have loneliness”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“And when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“It is not the man who has too little who is poor but the one who hankers after more.”
“The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.”
— Book of Proverbs
“Wonder is the desire for knowledge and the beginning of all understanding”
— Thomas Aquinas
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience”
— Mark Manson
“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
— John Locke
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
“Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.”
— Unknown
“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
— Mark Twain
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.”
— Epictetus
“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you cant see how it is”
— Ram Dass
“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”
— Tacitus
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
— Helen Keller
“There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.”
— Gautama Buddha
“Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe, to know what he ought to desire, and to know what he ought to do.”
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