Top 1200 Objects Of Desire Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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.

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.

Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things... To feel that we can care for ourselves without seeing our feelings as objects, and liking them as objects, is to be wrong about our care for ourselves.

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

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.

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

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.

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.

When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.

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

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

All these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to our view, they never affect our minds, so natural is it for us to admire new, rather than grand objects. Therefore the vast multitude of stars which diversify the beauty of this immense body does not call the people together; but when any change happens therein, the eyes of all are fixed upon the heavens.

The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.

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

Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred years of seeing humans at the center of existence, and now the objects take revenge, terrifyingly huge, ancient, long-lived, threateningly minute, invading every cell in our body.

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

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

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.

People have told me to have sex when i feel the desire to, but right now i have no desire to pull my pants down in front of a girl.

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

It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.

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

A thought has no size in the physical sense but is vast as compared to the physical acts and objects into which it is later precipitated. The power of a thought is enormous and superior to all the successive physical acts, objects, and events that body forth its energy. A thought often endures for a time much greater than the whole life of the man who thought it.

The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.

When your commitment is to be loving regardless of the circumstances, there is no room for harsh words. You assert yourself not from a desire to control but from a desire to stand for who you are.

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

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.

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.

You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

Not a chance. I don't know what Sarah (Palen)'s doing, (but) I have no desire to be president of the United States, zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable.

A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.

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

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

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

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 belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.

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

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

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

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

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

It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense... I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about Unidentified Flying Objects

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification…I think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures for them to behave a certain way and to look a certain way. Someone put it to me once: Women are sex objects and men are success objects. That was really interesting to me.

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

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.

Fashion is not a real element of beauty in external objects; and to persons who possess a good endowment of Form, Constructiveness and Ideality, intrinsic elegance is much more pleasing and permanently agreeable, than forms of less merit, recommended merely by being new. Hence there is a beauty which never palls, and there are objects over which fashion exercises no control.

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

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