Desire Quotes - Page 38

• It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Advice, Unjust

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.

  Steve Jobs

  Giving Up, Real, Tunnels

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• There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Giving, Growth

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• Enriching others is the only way to get rich, if that is what we desire. The more we serve, the more we deserve, getting what we give, no more and no less.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Giving, Way, Rich

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• These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.

  Han Suyin

  Art, Loss, Hands

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• Somewhere in your life there will be an overriding theme to your quest - some part of your desire that cannot be denied without a terrible cost to the very essence of what you are. Are you going to ignore it, or do you have the courage of your commitment and the confidence to demand that life, humanity, or circumstances give you what you want, with no other excuse, reason or apology other than that you demand it?

  Stuart Wilde

  Commitment, Apology, Essence

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• The circumstances of your life are neither good nor bad. They are appropriate to the needs of your soul. They may or may not be what your personality desires.

  Gary Zukav

  Personality, Soul, Needs

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Aug 20, 2013

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• We may exist in all universes, but 'hear' only one because of our limitations, the valve of our desires, our practical, physical needs. All is vibration, with nothing vibrating across no distance whatsoever. All is music. A universe, a world, is just one long difficult song. The difference between worlds is the difference between songs.

  Greg Bear

  Song, Distance, Differences

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• Is it not clear that to give to such women as desire it and can devote themselves to literary and scientific pursuits all the advantages enjoyed by men of the same class will lessen essentially the number of thoughtless, idle, vain and frivolous women and thus secure the [sic] society the services of those who now hang as dead weight?

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Men, Class, Numbers

  Gerda Lerner, Sarah Moore Grimké (1998). “The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké”, p.89, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of women be able to dwell in luxurious seclusion from the trials of life, while another class performed their loathsome tasks? Surely His wisdom had not decreed that one set of women should live in degradation and in the end should perish that others might live in security, preserve their frappeed chastity, and in the end be saved.

  Madeleine Albright

  Men, Class, Tasks

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• The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

  Publilius Syrus

  Seems

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• So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.

  William H. Gass

  Sleep, Issues, Wish

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• As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.

  Ambrose

  Father, Son, Approval

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• Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.

  Philip Sidney

  Wife, Firsts, Should

  Sir Philip Sidney (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)”, p.371, Delphi Classics

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• Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

  Philip Sidney

  Impossible, Unlawful, Enjoy

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.17

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• It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Men, Honor, Noble

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• People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

  Rumi

  Mean, Reality, Wings

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.171, Shambhala Publications

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• Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

  Rumi

  Men, Rope, Faults

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• All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

  Richard Whately

  Gambling, Profit, Expenses

  Richard Whately, Launcelot John George Downing DOWDALL (1848). “Elements of Logic ... Ninth edition, revised”, p.364

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• We have assurance that we shall be heard in what we pray, because we pray to that God that heareth prayer, and is the rewarder of all that come unto Him; and in His name, to whom God denieth nothing; and, therefore, howsoever we are not always answered at the present, or in the same kind that we desire, yet, sooner or later, we are sure to receive even above that we are able to ask or think, if we continue to sue unto Him according to His will.

  James Ussher

  Prayer, Thinking, Names

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• The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Vanity, Talking, Shining

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1841). “Letters to young ladies”, p.175

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• The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving

  D.T. Suzuki

  Passion, Squares, Feet

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• Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Serenity, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.45, Manonmani Publishers

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• I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Peace, Men, People

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• Desire is God tapping at the door of your mind, trying to give you greater good.

  H. Emilie Cady

  Doors, Giving, Mind

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