Passion And Desire Quotes

Passion And Desire Quotes by Swami Vivekananda, Laozi, William Hazlitt, Abraham Lincoln, Lord Byron, Gautama Buddha and many others.

One may gain political and social independence, but if

One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom
Swami Vivekananda
The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.
Laozi
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
William Hazlitt
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.
Abraham Lincoln
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
Lord Byron
Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.
Gautama Buddha
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
Stephen Fry
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
Stephen Fry
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.
Adolf Galland
Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
Agatha Christie
Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that’s the most important thing.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self – the great secret!
Hermann Hesse
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle
You can have anything you want
Jenifer Lewis
Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
W. Clement Stone
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. Wilson