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Desire Quotes


"You get in life that which is your deep driving desire."


"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."


"Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it."


"You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever."


"Are deepest desires are: someone to understand us, someone to appreciate us, someone to inspire us, and someone to enjoy what we are."


"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."


"Aren't you, like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner well-being you desire? Don't you often hope: 'May this book, idea, course, trip, job, country or relationship fulfill my deepest desire.' But as long as you are waiting for that mysterious moment you will go on running helter-skelter, always anxious and restless, always lustful and angry, never fully satisfied. You know that this is the compulsiveness that keeps us going and busy, but at the same time makes us wonder whether we are getting anywhere in the long run. This is the way to spiritual exhaustion and burn-out. This is the way to spiritual death."


"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing 'Jagat kalyan' (world's salvation)."


"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite."


"Success is like the most beautiful woman: pursued by many, loved by all, feared by few, courted by the patient and hardworking, and won over by good judgment."
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