Worldly Desires Quotes:

Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.

- Rajneesh

topic: Desire, Foolish, Worldly Desires

The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.

- Rumi

topic: Strength, Lying, Pride, Worldly Desires

People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise, and all the joys of heaven. But it is the same trick, the mind is again befooling you. This is not the way of the intelligent person, this is the way of the stupid.

- Rajneesh

topic: Stupid, Intelligent, People, Objects Of Desire, Worldly Desires

If the desires are not controlled now, later they will control you.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

topic: Relationship, Desire, Worldly Desires

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

- Akkineni Nagarjuna

topic: Buddhist, Desire, Pleasure, Worldly Desires, Worldly Pleasures

If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Children, Wife, Islam, Hussain, Worldly Desires

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Christian, Satisfaction, Pleasure, Worldly Desires, Worldly Pleasures

The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world.

- David Platt

topic: Dream, Believe, Home, Worldly Desires, Worldly Pleasures

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

- Thomas Carlyle

source: Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.236

topic: Ambition, Men, Desire, Worldly Desires, Worldly

Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

- John Muir

topic: Nature, Men, Care, Worldly Desires, Naturalist

You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.

- Norbert of Xanten

topic: Prayer, Catholic, Mind, Worldly Desires

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

- Anandamayi Ma

topic: Soul, Mind, Desire, Worldly Desires, Old Soul

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

- Virchand Gandhi

topic: Cutting, Soul, Progress, Worldly Desires

You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen above the worldly desires?

- Nirmala Srivastava

topic: Love, Wisdom, Yoga, Worldly Desires

From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since the beginning of time, the ignorant had always screamed the loudest, herding the unsuspecting masses and forcing them to do their bidding. They defended their worldly desires by citing Scripture they did not understand. They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now, after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus.

- Dan Brown

topic: Beautiful, Jesus, Struggle, Inquisition, Unsuspecting

Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

- Thomas a Kempis

topic: Love, Self, Vision, Worldly Desires, Hinder