Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. —Laozi More about this quote Tags: desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. —Laozi More about this quote Tags: simplicity desire plainness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed. —Lois McMaster Bujold More about this quote Tags: desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. —Margaret Deland More about this quote Tags: desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One must desire something to be alive. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. —Nicole Kidman More about this quote Tags: desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. —Publilius Syrus More about this quote Tags: desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. —Raymond Holliwell More about this quote Tags: desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Desire creates the power. —Rebecca West More about this quote Tags: power desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. —Stanley Kunitz More about this quote Tags: soul desire fertility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. —William Blake More about this quote Tags: desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. —William Shakespeare More about this quote Tags: desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. —Clive Barnes More about this quote Tags: democracy television desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Flowers . . . put up no resistance to attack, suffer evil rather than inflicting it, imitate carnal love, multiply without fighting, and die without complaining. . . . They have realized the dream of Buddha: to desire nothing, to tolerate everything, to be absorbed in oneself to the depths of the unconscious will. —J. Rambosson More about this quote Tags: evil will fighting desire flowers tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email