Best 86 quotes in «craving quotes» category

Is it the smoke?' the boy said, shivering slightly. 'I've never touched the stuff, myself, but how it claws at one...like a thorn in every one of your fingers, and a string around your heart...and one fees it always. Nagging. Nagging.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a fairy in possesion of a good appetite must be in want of pie.

It is not always about what you eat and drink. Rather it can be about what you are not eating and drinking, for which the body is desperately craving!

Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing to acknowledge her flaws - "Love is blind." But it may be the other way around. Love allows a person to see the true angelic nature of another person, the halo, the aureole of divinity. Certainly from the perspective of ordinary life this is madness and illusion. But if we let loose our hold on our philosophies and psychologies of enlightenment and reason, we might learn to appreciate the perspective of eternity that enters life as madness, Plato's divine frenzy.

I've become immune to desire; I snip the danger of wanting in the bud.

I want to take you under the moonlight.

My wretched passions were acute, smarting, from my continual, sickly irritability I had hysterical impulses, with tears and convulsions. I had no resource except reading, that is, there was nothing in my surroundings which I could respect and which attracted me. I was overwhelmed with depression, too; I had an hysterical craving for incongruity and for contrast, and so I took to vice.

One learns not to need by needing.

Peace occurs when you don’t turn your observations into problems. The first step in any behavior is observation. You notice a cue, a it of information, an event. If you do not desire to act on what you observe , then you are at peace. Craving is about wanting to fix everything. Observation without craving is the realization that you do not need to fix anything. Your desires are not running rampant. You do not crave a change in state. Your mind does not generate a problem for you to solve.

People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.

So many had burned opportunities in the name of postponement, believing that another opportunity will arise. They fail to seize the spur of the moment, without thinking that maybe, that could be their last chance to actualize their long nurtured dreams. Achieving your heart desires in this century requires your alertness, diligence, and overcoming the hindrances that procrastination brings.

Or is it the monthly flushing of the cannon without a birdie?

Loss, this was what he felt. Loss and deprivation. One man owns, another man craves - the craving far more passionate than the dull pleasures of ownership. How galling not to have when you were the type who deserved to have - yes, deserved.

The ego is an illusion. The more we submit to its cravings, the more unhappy we become.

Sometimes, being told not to do something just makes us want it all the more. Sometimes, a little of what you crave is better than total abstinence.

The way a love letter longs to be read I long for you. The way the poor Kane longs for his sled I long for you. The way the moon longs for the dark of night I long for you. The way a nestling bird longs for flight I long for you. I am blessed and I am cursed. I have waited for so long. I need you to come to me. And remind me of who I was once.

Though words can't make us whole but sometimes a genuine "I'm here for you" can be the touch your heart is craving to feel when it's broken.

Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House-builder, you're seen! You will not build a house again. All your rafters broken, the ridge pole destroyed, gone to the Unformed, the mind has come to the end of craving.

Tis night: now only do all songs of the loving ones awake. And my soul also is the song of a loving one. Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me; it longeth to find expression. A craving for love is within me, which speaketh itself the language of love.

Tis not what you crave that feeds your soul... Tis my sunshine right after the rain When my ravishing rays unfold.

We walk through each day, with a restless wandering. Deep down craving a different path. A shining light. A dream to hold on to.

You can never get enough of what you really don't want. Identify what it is you're actually craving. This will save Time, Energy and Resources.

You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.

Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in ``the destruction of craving. Having comprehended all by myself, whom shall I call my teacher.

Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.

The craving for the thing is rarely met by the satisfaction of getting it. And so we crave more. And the cycle repeats. We are encouraged to want what will only make us want more. We are, in short, encouraged to be addicts.

The root of that craving is our habit energy.When we look deeply at it, we can begin to untie the knot.

To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.

We grow up in a world where satisfying our cravings seems to be the number one objective, every advertisement on television and the newspaper calls for one craving or another to be dealt with. When it comes to sex we are bombarded every which way, so much so, that we think solving our cravings is the only way and the right way.

We know that if we eat a certain food, it will upset our digestion, but we still eat it. The way out is to beware of the superficial appearance. From outside, something may look very pleasant. But we have to look deeper and use that deep understanding to see the superficial aspects of the object of our desire. Our understanding can overcome our cravings.

Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

As addictive and satisfying as my first tattoo, Wolf’s Remedy left me craving more.

Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear

Cravings are not about food. Cravings are about stress.

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God.

Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.

Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.

If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.

I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

I hated myself for needing him at such times, for craving his strength whenever I felt upset.

I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.

Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

I never deprive myself. If I'm craving something once a week, then Ill go have it Ice cream or whatever, I just eat the foods I like.

All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.

It was somehow degrading, craving someone so... voraciously - another good calendar word - just because he was physically beautiful. I hadn't thought that was something women did, either.

Money isn't what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement-a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged.