Quotation Explorer - 'Desiring'

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. - Epicurus
Persons desiring to know what love is might benefit more if they were able to understand what love is not. - Floyd Henderson
Seeking Intimacy with God and desiring Fellowship with Him, will make our calling in Christ sure. - Santosh Thankachan
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own - Emanuel Swedenborg
When you accept discomfort of whatever moment that you are in. The power of that surrender, that letting go of desiring to be in a different situation than the one your in.........will set you free from the hell of your unconscious. - Matthew Donnelly
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. - Epicurus
A man never grows out of wanting and desiring money that follows him through life. - Auliq-Ice
Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire. - Anthony Liccione
I never wanted to feel ashamed for striving, for desiring, for ambition. And I never wanted to judge another woman, or anyone, for that matter, for their own aspirations, even if they differed from my own - Carrie Brownstein
When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I said nothing to the woman I loved but gathered love's adjectives into a suitcase and fled from all languages. - Nizar Qabbani
When you reach the thing you were desiring, if it doesn't satisfy you, it was not what you were desiring. - C. S. Lewis
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. - Democritus
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). - Dada Bhagwan
Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Desiring money kills desire. Money kills desire. - André Chamson
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?
Desiring to be more than true, you are worse than false.
Love is giving without desiring, it's giving without requiring, but know that it will be returned. Maybe not as expected, but as needed - Gerald Mills
Enlightenment, awakening or liberation can never be attained by seeking or desiring. It is realized only through experience. - Gian Kumar
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