Alain de Botton Quotes, Desire Quotes, May Quotes

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

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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 truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.

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How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

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We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

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The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no desires for itself; thus it is present for all beings. The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.

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Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

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Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?

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One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

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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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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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Can one desire too much of a good thing?

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If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

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If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

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Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

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Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

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He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

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