Best desire & pure Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.”

Ifs Humans Kind Mother Desire Pleasure Virtue Pure Breaths Refuse Permanent Appetite Nursing Rendering Satiety

Author:Socrates

“Enlightened teachers get all sorts of assignments. Sometimes we end up in the higher astral; sometimes we end up in the realm of pure spirit; sometimes we end up in the desire realms. Sometimes we go down to the lower astral to teach, you don't really teach there, you just sort of are, because everybody is confused.”

Ends Sometimes Spirit Desire Teach Teacher Higher Pure Realms Confused Enlightened Assignments

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.”

Action Desire Choices Difficult Buddhism Pure Liberation Purity Enslavement

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.”

Soul Body Desire Grace Pure Chastity

Author:Solon

“What you want is already here, in the unified field of pure potential. Everything you need to fulfill your greatest desire is already part of your being. But it can’t come out until you align with it, let go of the obstructions to it, and raise your vibration to the level at which it already exists.”

Want Needs Desire Levels Fields Pure Letting Go Raises What You Want Vibrations Unified Obstruction

Author:Derek Rydall

“It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.”

Desire Habit Pure Virtuous Cultivation

Book:On Christian Doctrine

Source: On Christian Doctrine

“Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.”

“Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.”

People Doe Desire Pure Purity Midst Monk

Author:Dogen

“I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.”

Source: The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her

“I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For one thing, I get asked about writing novels so much that I feel guilty about never having written one. And although I have no strong desire to write a novel, I would hate not to try. That would just be silly. On the other hand, I hate the idea of slogging through something that turns out to be not good.”

Feels Writing Trying Ideas Hands Desire Hate Turns Strong Novel Written One Thing Pure I Hate Silly Guilty Motive Being Silly Strong Desire

Author:Kelly Link

“A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.”

Heart Past Desire Pure Deeper Songwriters Digging Dig Deep

Author:Jack White

“To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that smooth sliding fall, no recollection of disillusionment blurs that pure desire.”

World Desire Fall Sin Pure Consequence Virtuous Smooth Recollection Grit Disillusionment Blur Virtuous Life

Book:Selected stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: Selected stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.”

Light Form Desire Suffering Buddhism Pure Unhappiness Aversion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys.”

Problem Desire Evil Pure Eternal Investing Driven Endless Fallen Emptiness Compelled Insatiable

Author:Denis de Rougemont

“The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.”

Mind Soul Body Desire Humanity Duty Pure Mercy Impulse Gita Undisciplined Mind Body And Soul

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The world cannot hold onto you, for the world is not sentient. The world doesn't have a mind nor does it have desires; it is only your mind's objectivisation. It is your own mind's play which imagines that an object-call it the mind or whatever-can hold onto you. It is the idea you have of who you are that is holding onto its own fearful projections as the mind. Leave all of this and remain as the pure, joyous Self.”

World Mind Doe Ideas Self Play Desire Imagine Objects Pure Who You Are Fearful Imagine That Holding On Projection Joyous

Author:Mooji

“I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.”

Persons Self Desire Realizing Human Nature Fine Pure Noble Fulfillment Purity Nobility Self Fulfillment

Book:I'll Never Lie to You

Source: I'll Never Lie to You

“Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to present himself as a thoughtful idealist and wait for the world to flock to him. He considered it below him, or wrong, to scramble out among the people and ask them what they wanted. Roosevelt grappled voters to him. Stevenson shied off from them. Some thought him too pure to desire power, though he showed ambition when it mattered.”

People World Way Ideas Matter Wanted Young Desire Asks Felt Waiting Pure Ambition Noble Thoughtful Voters Flocks Franklin Idealist

Author:Garry Wills

“No thought about the past or future can pull you away from your present peace and joy. The universe exists in this present moment. No desire can pull you away from this present peace, not even the desire to become a Buddha or the desire to save all beings. Know that to become a Buddha and to save all beings can only be realized on the foundation of the pure peace of the present moment.”

Knows Moments Past Joy Desire Universe Peace Future Pure Foundation Present Moment Peace And Joy

Book:Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247

Source: Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247

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