Sri Aurobindo Quotes, Attachment Quotes, Desire Quotes

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

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How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

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Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit.

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My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

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One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

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No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

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What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.

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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.

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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

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The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

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The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires.

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The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

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I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.

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