Top 1200 Objects Of Desire Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

I want to create objects that will stimulate the viewer in ways that I am stimulated by these objects. Now that's an ideal situation and the artist has no control over what his audience is going to think, but they can try to communicate some quality, some poetry through the work and just hope that the viewer has something in the vicinity of a similar experience.

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

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.

There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which there is no explanation. We can only imagine what purpose lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the Earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are simply watching what we are up to

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

Macroscopic objects, as we see them all around us, are governed by a variety of forces, derived from a variety of approximations to a variety of physical theories. In contrast, the only elements in the construction of black holes are our basic concepts of space and time. They are, thus, almost by definition, the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe.

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

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

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

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.

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

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.

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

Know that for the human mind there are certain objects of perception which are within the scope of its nature and capacity; on the other hand, there are, amongst things which actually exist, certain objects which the mind can in no way and by no means grasp: the gates of perception are closed against it.

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

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

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.

I'm not a pop artist. For me pop never was.... Pop is concerned with exteriors. I'm concerned with interiors. When I use objects, I see them as a vocabulary of feelings. I can spend a lot of time with objects, and they leave me as satisfied as a good meal. I don't think pop artists feel that way.

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

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.

The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn't it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive.

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.

In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.

There's a definite connection in terms of objects at hand - dealing with objects or material at hand. Pop art was very much enamored with popular imagery, and popular imagery was of course available and at hand. And land art was also using what was at hand.

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 house begins to be a home. The unfamiliar places are beginning to fold the familiar objects into their keeping and to cozy them down. Objects that swore at each other when the movers heaved them into the new rooms have subsided into corners and sit to lick their feet and wash their faces like cats accepting a new home.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed objects. The inscription made it magic and changed its meaning. That's how objects become charmed in The Arabian Nights, and they are often originally ordinary objects. The carpet is an ordinary, paltry object. The lamp is a rusty old lamp, and the bottles jinns are imprisoned within are old bottles. They are changed by the magic and the jinn's presence, and the jinn's presence is often embodied in the seal or inscription.

We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past instances have been found inseparable. We cannot penetrate into the reason of the conjunction. We only observe the thing itself, and always find that from the constant conjunction the objects acquire an union in the imagination.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the federal legislature will be likely to attach themselves too much to local objects.

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.

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.

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

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