60 quotes
“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”
— Naval Ravikant
“Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
— Plato
“Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.”
— Unknown
“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
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”
“Time is what we want most but what we use worst.”
— William Penn
“Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.”
— Lao Tzu
“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
— Mark Twain
“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
— John Locke
“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.”
— Paulo Coelho
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience”
— Mark Manson
“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.”
“And when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it”
“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.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end”
— Sylvia Plath
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”
— Tacitus
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
— Socrates
“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
“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 to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.”
— Julia Cameron
“The number one reason most people do not get what they want is that they do not know what they want.”
— T. Harv Eker
“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want”
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”
— John Stuart Mill
“The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all mans slavery.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“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.”
“Wonder is the desire for knowledge and the beginning of all understanding”
“Desire is the starting point of all achievement not a hope not a wish but a keen pulsating desire.”
“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
“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
“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
“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.”
— Epictetus
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“It is not the man who has too little who is poor but the one who hankers after more.”
— Seneca
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
— Helen Keller
“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”
“The key to happiness is the reduction of desires.”
— Amma
“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
“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you cant see how it is”
— Ram Dass
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