desire quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants."
73
"There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires."
176
"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
190
"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."
360
"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."
531
"Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realise there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
532
"It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."
587
"Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts."
607
"Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires."
636
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."
643
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
652
"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."
690
"Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money."
691
"A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities."
737
"We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without."
985
"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
1059
"…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad."
1083
"Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than shear reasoning powers."
124
"Anything that is alive is in a continual state of change and movement. The moment that you rest, thinking that you have attained the level you desire, a part of your mind enters a phase of decay."
128
"If you want to have an infinite set of experiences, create fictitious egos that take themselves seriously and program them to always desire what they do not have."
216
"Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering."
421
"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."
523
"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
556
"There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless."
640
"I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen."
917
"Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses."
933
"The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience."
1154
"Because here’s the thing that’s wrong with all of the 'How to Be Happy' shit that’s been shared eight million times on Facebook in the past few years—here’s what nobody realizes about all of this crap: The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience."
1167