Alan Watts Quotes, Desire Quotes, Want Quotes

For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

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To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

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I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

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The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no desires for itself; thus it is present for all beings. The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.

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The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

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A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

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You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

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Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

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Can one desire too much of a good thing?

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To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

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If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

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