62 quotes
“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.”
— Epictetus
“And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
— Paulo Coelho
“When you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“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
“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
“Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.”
— Lao Tzu
“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
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
— Jack Canfield
“Time is what we want most but what we use worst.”
— William Penn
“An original is a creation motivated by desire any reproduction is motivated by necessity”
— Man Ray
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
— Epicurus
“The heart desires compassion as the thirsty desert desires the rain to bring it to life”
— Hafiz
“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.”
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Wonder is the desire for knowledge and the beginning of all understanding”
— Thomas Aquinas
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
— Helen Keller
“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
“It is not the man who has too little who is poor but the one who hankers after more.”
— Seneca
— Julia Cameron
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”
— Napoleon Hill
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“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.”
“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”
— Naval Ravikant
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”
“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you cant see how it is”
— Ram Dass
“The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.”
— Book of Proverbs
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience”
— Mark Manson
“And when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it”
“Desire is the starting point of all achievement not a hope not a wish but a keen pulsating desire.”
“The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all mans slavery.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
— Plato
“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
— Mark Twain
“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”
— John Stuart Mill
“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 key to happiness is the reduction of desires.”
— Amma
“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.”
“Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.”
— Unknown
“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
— John Locke
“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want”
“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
“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”
— Tacitus
“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”
“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
“And when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“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.”
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