Top 1200 Desire To Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.

21st-century activism is different perhaps in the sense that the individual can be more present in the process, especially via social media, but the underlying drivers remain the same as desire to change the status quo.

We have been making changes continuously. You cannot expect everything to be perfect the minute it is made. Things change; they are dynamic as you progress. The requirements change. Demands change. So you change with that.

A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.

I'm always willing to accept change, just as long as it isn't change for the sake of change. If that change will result in a better way of doing things, then I'm all for it.

There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

It's good to be aware that a certain amount of fear is going to accompany every change in your life - a change for the worse or a change for the better. Knowing this can stop you from moving into fear about Change Itself. If you start fearing change generically you could wind up shrinking from ever making any kind of change at all for the rest of your day - even a change that obviously should be made for your own good.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

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.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.

When you see your own desire to be happy, you can't avoid seeing the same desire in others.

People in tech love to see their work as embodying the 'hacker ethos': a desire to break systems down in order to change them. But this pride can often be conveyed rather clumsily.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul wants happiness, perfect and pure happiness, because only then will all desires end. As long as desire exists misery exists, because with desire there can be no peace.

The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine.

The causes for my eating disorder ran along the usual lines: depression, an inability to express my rage, a desire to exert control, a desire to feel less, a desire to have my body express the things my voice could not. That, and I had gotten in the habit of believing it was better to take up less space.

Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values.

Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to the voluntary desire of powerful classes to maintain the existing status.

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.

People will change when they see that the change will help them reach their goals. If the CHRO sees that the HR transformation that others desire will help the CHRO reach his or her goals, then there will be more support. Absent this reasoning, the CHRO may go through the motions, but the transformation will not be sincere or lasting.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change.

An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.

I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for.

. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion.

If you will change everything will change for you. Don’t wait for things to change. Change doesn’t start out there, change starts within....All change starts with you.

It's very important to get your desires centered so you will desire only to do God's will for you. You can come to the point of oneness of desire, just to know and do your part in the Life Pattern. When you think about it, is there anything else as really important to desire?

There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.

Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we shut down and hide out in our houses, succumbing to infotainment and the ease of an available latte, turning off our brains and emotions. Books breed desire.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.

The simple act of helping someone—with no desire (or possibility) of repayment is good for us and our self-image, and it may positively change the life or outlook of the receiver for the day!

When Catullus expresses his love and hate for Lesbia, he is not obviously voicing a wish to rid himself of one or the other of these two sentiments. Not all contradictions resolve into temporal change of belief or desire.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.