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