Top 1200 Desire To Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires to come from our deepest selves, our personal depths - but if it did, it would not be desire. Desire is always for something we feel we lack.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.

At the very beginning, it's a desire and that's not the same thing at all, because when you have the desire to do something, all the work you can do is a positive thing. It's not something that you calculate. An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way. The immersion, it's classical, I watched a lot of movies.

But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

To win you must have talent and desire ­ but desire is first.

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions.

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

A healthy desire for wealth is not greed. It's a desire for life.

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

If some things aren't going well, do something; never wait for the things to be ok by themselves! Do something; change the direction, change the parameters, change the criteria, change anything you wish to change! To change is to create a new destiny! Remember, you have thousands of different destinies; change is your instrument to switch from one destiny to another! Remember, you have thousands of different destinies!

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed!

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.

If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away.

There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look at a painting in a museum and you are held in aesthetic arrest. So the I, the ego, is stripped, is gone. The observer and thing become one. That's where fear and desire come in because you don't want to own it, possess it, desire it, and it's not moving you to fear. It's like you're in this harmonious state with the object.

The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

But I'm going to play with the same passion and desire every night, and nobody's going to change that. Not referees. Nobody.

As an actor, my desire was always to be different, there was a desire to associate yourself with projects that bring about the contemporary situation.

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.

My desire is always to play, and that will never change, I've experienced too much and had too much success.

Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguard connections and keep everyone happy.

If you have the desire, if you really had people with the burning desire to lower taxes, it would be done. We know the Democrats don't want to do it.

... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.

Heartbreak is when you're just far enough away from what you desire that you can feel it. Change is the Pangaea moment. I feel like I'm at this point in my life where I have created this place, this island in the ocean, and I'm happy there.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

When you imagine the reality of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subconscious brings about the realisation of desire.

All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame and the chance to do something that really matters, that will make life better for a lot of people.

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.

Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be are expressions of your longing for happiness.

EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.