Top 1200 Selfish Desire Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away? And if it is not moral for you to keep a value, why is it moral for others to accept it? If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.