Desires Quotes

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.

Our visions begin with our desires.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

To manifest your hearts desires you must BE what your heart desires.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.