D Quotes
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“Desire is something very egoistic. If you desire something, you also have to take the consequences of that. You have to study the market and see how it can go. I mean to become an artist... You never get the Nobel-price for example. You can normally never become a millionaire. Very few become millionaires, so the circumstances are very bad if one becomes an artist. And that should be taken into consideration.”
“Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.”
“Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.”
“Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.”
“Desire is the catalyst that ignites our potential and fuels our growth.”
“Desire is the cause of all suffering. All Zhu had ever desired was to live. Now she felt the pure strength of that desire inside her, as inseparable as her breath or qi, and knew she would suffer from it. She couldn’t even begin to imagine the awful magnitude of the suffering that would be required to achieve greatness in the chaotic, violent world outside.”
Source: She Who Became the Sun
“Desire is the cause of happiness. Desire is also the cause of sadness.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.”
“Desire is the endless search for one’s “lost” substantial being within a differentiated field of insubstantial meaning fundamentally structured in such a way as to make pure substantiality impossible to attain—we chase after our “lost” plentitude in the very network of signifiers that alienated us from it in the first place.”
Source: Capital VS Timenergy: A Žižekian Critique of Nick Land
“Desire is the essence of a man.”
“Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.”
“Desire is the foundation of our greatness. Without it, we are stranded; we cannot go anywhere. You won't get, what you don't eagerly desire.”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“Desire is the fuel of action. Passion is the match.”
“Desire is the great equalizer.”
“Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel its presence, and see its results in the lives of successful people.”
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
“Desire is the key to motivation.”
“Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.”
Source: Personality Development Through Positive Thinking
“Desire is the key to your achievement and to your destiny.”
“Desire is the kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving.”
“Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.”
“Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.”
“Desire is the motivating force behind all progress and advancement in science, art, industry and in all phases of life.”
Source: The Birth of God in You
“Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.”
“Desire is the putting of my will into God’s concern. It’s not a passive, sitting back in your easy chair, folding your arms sort of thing, which says, 'Well, I’m willing, if God would only give me a good swift kick and send me.' That’s willingness all right. But God doesn’t want willingness, He wants will! He wants your will put behind those desires.”
“Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.”
“Desire is the same thing as dependency.”
Source: The Science of Money
“Desire is the seed of potential.”
“Desire is the shadow of fear. By eliminating one, we can eliminate the other.”
“Desire is the sister of death. It’s the incessant craving to annihilate yourself completely.”
Source: First Date
“Desire is the source of all ecstasy.”
“Desire is the source of ecstasy.”
“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”
“Desire is the starting point of all achievements.”
“Desire is the straw that stirs the drink.”
“Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.”
“Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.”
“Desire is the very essence of man”
Source: The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings
“Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds ahead on its divine wings. What we cannot see, desire describes, and then it goads us to travel on until we have given birth to Joy.”
Source: The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth
“Desire is to ask for something in silence, without really wanting it, for having it wouldn't fill you as much as having desired it.”
“Desire is transformed into drive when a dream creates a passion for action”
“Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.”
“Desire is what leads you through life until the time comes when you desire a higher life. So do not be ashamed that you want so much, yet at the same time do not fool yourself into thinking that what you want today will be enough tomorrow.”
“Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed.”
“Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.”
“Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.”
“Desire is your creative life force”
“Desire is your creative life force ready to be unleashed.”
“Desire is your creative life force yearning to be unleashed.”
“Desire isn't lack, it's surplus energy - a claustrophobia inside your skin -.”
Source: I Love Dick