Best 86 quotes in «craving quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.