Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Views Quotes, Desire Quotes

Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be realised in society.

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Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.

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Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

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It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.

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But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

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I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

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You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...'

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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

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The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

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Following your heart's desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go.

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Boredom is desire seeking desire.

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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

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Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.

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Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

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Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

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