Craving Quotes - Page 11

• What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it is impossible to attain stability. This is like the case of the fertile field, which cannot produce good crops as long as the weeds are not cleared away. Cravings and ruminations are the weeds of the mind; if you do not clear them away, concentration and wisdom do not develop.

  Zhang Sanfeng

  Weed, Practice, Long

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• I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now, housebuilder, I have found you out. You will not build me a house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridge-pole shattered. My mind is free from active thought, and has made an end of craving.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Pain, Ignorance

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• There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Money

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• There's such a craving to make Egypt white or Asian, people don't just even listen to you. When you explain why would anyone build anything as enduring as the Pyramids in Africa before they would build anything of that nature at home?

  John Henrik Clarke

  Home, Egypt, Pyramids

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Fear, Sorrow

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• Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

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• Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

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• When you gradually add in nutrient-dense, fiber-rich foods, you simply stop feeling cravings. You run out of space in your belly for the old junk. Instead of craving, you feel full, fulfilled, and content.

  Kathy Freston

  Running, Space, Feelings

  Kathy Freston (2012). “The Lean: A Revolutionary (and Simple!) 30-Day Plan for Healthy, Lasting Weight Loss”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Fear, Grief

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• When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Heart, Wish

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• Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be called "In his last body", "Great in wisdom" and a "Great man."

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Men, Understanding

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• Self-body hate, like any hate or other strong negative emotion, contributes to unneeded weight gain by triggering junk-food cravings.

  M.J. Rose

  Strong, Hate, Self

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• One of the things I used to dream of is that if I could just be funny like Red Skelton, if I could be a comedian like Red Skelton - that's what I watched on TV - then maybe I would have friends. I just remember that if I told stories to my friends, they listened. And in my family, with nine people talking at the same time, it's really hard to get people to listen to you. We were all craving attention.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Dream, Talking, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  War, Stronger, Groups

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• It doesn't matter if you have a D, or an I or an R after your name if you have a job - a J-O-B. It really matters to people that they have an opportunity to contribute to their economy in a very meaningful way, and this is outside party lines. So we believe that these are the solutions that America is craving.

  Sher Valenzuela

  Meaningful, Jobs, Party

  "Live Blog: Republican National Convention Day 2; Ann Romney, Chris Christie" by Z. Byron Wolf, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2012.

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• You know you are addicted to a food if despite knowing it is bad for you and despite wanting to change, you still keep eating it. Addiction means that a craving has more control over your behavior than you do.

  Kathy Freston

  Mean, Knowing, Addiction

  Kathy Freston (2011). “Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World (Large Print 16pt)”, p.242, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

  Anthony de Mello

  Ambition, Greed, Life Is

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.78, Image

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• Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.

  Alan Weisman

  Energy, Too Much, Nobility

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• This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn't have the specific ritual you are craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up a ceremony of your own devising, fixing your own broken-down emotional systems with all the do-it-yourself resourcefulness of a generous plumber/poet.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Spiritual, Believe, Emotional

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.178, A&C Black

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• I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

  Malcolm X

  Education, Reading, Long

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.

  Margaret Atwood

  Squids, Want, Sucker

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.

  Knut Hamsun

  Pain, Taken, Eye

  Knut Hamsun (1999). “Hunger”, p.39, Canongate Books

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• It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours.

  Charles Duhigg

  Real, Self Understanding, Effort

  "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business". Book by Charles Duhigg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2012.

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• We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.

  Audre Lorde

  Raised, Has Beens

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.57, Crossing Press

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• Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Appreciation, Mind, Wake Up

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