Dalai Lama Quotes, Contentment Quotes, Desire Quotes

Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.

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Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

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Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

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We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

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Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

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Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

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Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

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Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.

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The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

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May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

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The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

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He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

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The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

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Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.

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