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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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

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It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

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Can one desire too much of a good thing?

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No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

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

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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

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Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

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Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.

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And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

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All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

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Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

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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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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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