#desire

Does it pass you by? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you.

Whoever would be free, let him wish for nothing, have aversion to nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.

Curb your desires, don't set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

He has suppressed all desire in himself, and transferred his aversion only to the things contrary to nature which are within his own power.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

When they are transformed, and desire raises its head, I quell it with the nameless simplicity.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

The secret of human freedom lies not in expanding our desires, but in learning to need less.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want air when you are under water, then you will have it.

There is in the human heart a perpetual generation of passions; so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.

We should often be sorry if our wishes were granted.

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all human bondage.

Do not hate, do not desire, do not worry; establish yourself in the unshakeable peace of your own divine nature.

Do not desire that which belongs to another; covetousness robs the mind of peace. (Kural 171)

Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don't have.

Desire is a prison; awareness is the key.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Love is a serious mental disease.

There is in every one of us, even those who seem most respectable, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

The god of love lives in a state of need.

You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

He who has much desire has much need.