D Quotes
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“Desires are currency notes. If you have a new crispy note and a soiled note, you will first try to spend the soiled note. Desire to find the supreme truth is the most crispy note. You are saving it for last. Even amongst soiled notes, you are first trying most soiled: You first try broken partners before settling for marriage material, you try painful jobs before settling for your passion, you try wrong Gurus and books before settling for the one that you need.”
“Desires are done by the ‘Pudgal’ (non-self mind-body-complex), so how can they be suppressed? If You (the Self) are the one doing the desiring, then why don’t you stop it? But that doesn’t happen therefore, desire is a matter pertaining to the Pudgal (non-self mind-body-complex).”
“Desires are formed by Pudgal (body complex). How can they be suppressed? If You (Soul) are the one doing the desiring, why don’t you stop them? But that doesn’t happen. Therefore, desire is a matter pertaining to the Pudgal.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Desires are like coil springs. When we try to handle them at the mind level, we either suppress them too much or stretch them too much. In both the cases, a lot of stress and negative energy accumulates that harms us.”
“desires are not killed by fulfilling them”
Source: Gertrude
“Desires are nourished by delays.”
“Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.”
Source: The Plato Collection [47 Books]
“Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.”
“Desires are the source of drive and aspiration in human life. They provide the energy for a whole range of human accomplishments, including the spiritual quest for awakening. Bodhicitta, the thought of enlightenment for all living beings, evolves in the minds of bodhisattvas to become the primal desire, the deepest source of energy.”
Source: Living Skillfully: Buddhist Philosophy of Life from the Vimalakirti Sutra
“Desires are very cunning and complex. You are frustrated, but not because of needs. You are frustrated because of desires. And if desires take too much of your energy you will be unable to fulfill your needs also, because who is there to fulfill them? You are moving into the future; you are thinking of the future; your mind is dreaming. Who is there to fulfill ordinary needs of the day? You are not there. And you would like to remain hungry but reach the horizon. You would like to postpone needs so that the whole energy moves towards the desire. But in the end, you find that the desire is not fulfilled, and because needs have been neglected, in the end you are just a ruin. And the time that is lost cannot be regained; you cannot go back.”
Source: When the Shoe Fits: Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu
“Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely.”
Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice
“Desires can be misleading. When we derive our actions from our desires, we land up in the middle of the desert lost and thirsty.”
Source: Quantraz
“Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.”
“Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.”
“Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.”
“Desires in life are about training your subconscious mind to think of only the things you want, love and deserve.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“Desires incite thoughts. Thoughts transpire actions,” Buddha smiles, “I never say no to desire. To judge desire is to add words. To not desire is just an act in illusion.”
Source: Buddha's House of Mirrors
“Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.”
“Desires may dry off, bodies may decay, friendship may vanish and positions may be dissolved. One thing will remain; the word of God! In the word is life!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Desires must be fuelled with discipline”
“Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish”
Source: The Richest Man in Babylon
“Desires occur because pratyakhyan [resolutions to not repeat the mistake] were not done. It comes in the memory because pratikraman [repentances] were not done.”
“Desires play perpetually.”
“Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.”
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
“Desires set the direction of your life. As soon as you desire to go to Paris, the car of your life changes its direction towards Paris. Due to lack of fuel (Karma), you may not reach Paris but you may reach some good or bad place which is in that direction.”
“Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.”
“Desires stay unaware
of man’s fragile existence
authored by scarcity”
“Desires that are just are termed Truth. Without desires, Truth cannot be understood.”
Source: A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty
“Desires to learn are like the sea. They ebb and flow. Sometimes they are low and sometimes they are high. Some days the kids are vacuum cleaners of ideas and experiences and seem to have limitless curiosity. On other they seem to be becalmed in indifference.”
Source: JUMP, FALL, FLY From Schooling to Homeschooling to Unschooling
“Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.”
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
“Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.”
Source: The Reader
“Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.”
Source: Les Mis??rables
“Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.”
Source: Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage
“Desiring is a part of dreaming.”
“Desiring marriage does not automatically mean I am discontent in my life. As long as I desire Jesus more than marriage, I shouldn’t be made to feel
ashamed for desiring to be married one day.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“Desiring money kills desire. Money kills desire.”
“desiring-production is one and the same thing as social production”
Source: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“Desiring the ending,
breaking,
not trying to mend.
In this farewell hour
our love is
elsewhere,
dying snow in someone else's hand.”
“Desiring the exhilarations of changes:
The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon ...”
“Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.”
“Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.”
Source: Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer
“Desirous of placing those who aspire to sanctity - and especially to priestly sanctity - in the best conditions for arriving there, it seemed to me indispensable to evoke the particular action which the Virgin Mary has by the will of God in this effort to attain holiness, and this even before considering the elements and essential steps towards sanctity.
If the Word Incarnate who had absolutely no need of a mother to come among us to accomplish the Redemption, wished that His divine person should receive a body and a soul in the bosom of Mary and that, during thirty out of thirty-three years, He should remain subject to His Mother and be, in a certain way, formed by Mary, how can we imagine that we, poor sinful creatures, have no need of the effective aid of Mary to form us into Christians, and priests?”
Source: Spiritual Journey
“Desist from anything that impedes you from accomplishing your dreams, including fear. When you face moments of fear, remember the enemy wants to keep you in a shell, but you have the power to let your dreams manifest.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“Desjardins was literally fuming. His tattered robes still smoked from battle. (Carter says I shouldn’t mention that his pink boxer shorts were showing, but they were!)”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.”
“Desktop freelancers and innovative startups all over the world”
“Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital investment in a major printing press. That's a big difference. Same is true of more advanced technologies - it can offer plenty of liberatory possibilities - can - but whether it does or not or whether it serves for coercion depends on socioeconomic decisions.”
“Deslenguadas. Somos las del español deficiente. We are your linguistic nightmare, your linguistic aberration, your linguistic mestisaje, the subject of your burla. Because we speak with tongues of fire we are culturally crucified. Racially, culturally and linguistically somos huérfanos —we speak an orphan tongue”
“Desliguem os aparelhos! Me deixem morrer... pensei apagando o fogo.”
Source: Asfixia
“Deslumbrado y alterado por esa luz, pero también por ser únicamente el doctor Pasavento, quise creer que todo lo que me pasaba era, simple y llanamente, producto de una fuerte resaca. Porque si uno lo pensaba bien, ¿era verosímil que durante toda la noche un médico, sin duda monstruoso, probablemente un neuroquímico del cerebro, me hubiera implantado la memoria de doctor Pasavento?"
Doctor Pasavento. Enrique Vila-Matas (Satán Vivo). p. 172.”
Source: Doctor Pasavento