A Quote by Eliza Haywood

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.

Eliza Haywood

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Desire Naturally Possession

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Eliza Haywood
British - Writer
1693 - February 25, 1756

As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?

Jack Kornfield

To reach satisfaction in all desire its possession in nothing, To come to the knowledge of all desire the knowledge of nothing. To come to possess all desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all desire to be nothing.

John of the Cross

You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king of desire. ...equal in this to the greatest kings of the earth... It is desire that constitutes their power; that is, the possession of things that men covet.

Blaise Pascal

The Buddha said that all conscious beings possess an enlightened nature. Because of that, we have this natural purity, peacefulness and power. We can rest the mind naturally because we are already in possession of these qualities. If one can rest the mind naturally, that's the best meditation.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.

Origen

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

Samuel Alexander

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

William Lyon Phelps

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

Hannah More

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

Jack London

The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that the desire being always greater than the acquisition, there results discontent with the possession and little satisfaction to themselves from it. From this arises the changes in their fortunes; for as men desire, some to have more, some in fear of losing their acquisition, there ensues enmity and war, from which results the ruin of that province and the elevation of another.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Applause abates diligence.

Samuel Johnson

You must be able to see yourself, with your inner eye, already in possession of the good you desire.

Bob Proctor

Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.

Jack London

The desire for fitness comes naturally to me.