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A Quote by The Bible on god and desires

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but cannot have what you want. You quarrel...

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A Quote by Bhagavad Gita on attachments, desires, ocean, rivers, mind, and...

Waters from many rivers continually flow into the ocean but the ocean never overfills.In a like manner, desires and attachments constantly flow into the mind of the Illuminated One, but he or she ,...

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A Quote by Kenneth Smith on philosophy, reason, passions, desires, and slavery

Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"--and by "passions" he meant not moral passions or the passions of transcendent genius, but only...

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A Quote by Isha De Lubicz on desires, liberation, and enlightenment

To arouse oneself from the state of sleep and take the first step toward liberation, one must attain a thorough understanding of the meaning of the Permanent Witness (or Ego-Consciousness) and see in...

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A Quote by Richard Rose on ego and desires

The ego is the single biggest obstruction to the achievement of anything. Between-ness is the act of acting without ego. You act, but you are not the actor. You do things, but you are not the doer--and...

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A Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre on desire, sin, desires, satisfaction, certainty,...

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. Contributed by:  Siona read more

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A Quote by Robert Grudin on needs, desires, stress, danger, excitement, and past

We are wistful about the golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect that if our inner souls were asked what in life they really missed, the answer would...

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A Quote by Paulo Coelho on needs, desires, wants, and self-determination

You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face.  It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...' Source:  The Witch of Portobello Pages:  197...

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A Quote by unknown on circumstances, desires, dreams, fear, happiness,...

Just because you think you found the right person for you, doesn’t always mean that they feel you are the right person for them. That’s the challenge and the risk of opening up to someone, allowing...

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A Quote by Orison Swett Marden on goals, ambitions, desires, and accomplishments

All who have accomplished great things have had great aim; have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high; one which sometimes seemed impossible. Source:  How To turn Your Desires And Ideals Into...

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