Craving Quotes - Page 17

• Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.

  Josef Pieper

  Mean, Psychics, Joy

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• Many pray for the power of God. More every year. Those prayers sound powerful, sincere, godly, and without ulterior motive. Hidden under such prayer and fervor, however, are ambition, a craving for fame, the desire to be considered a spiritual giant. The person who prays such a prayer may not even know it, but dark motives and desires are in his heartin your heart.

  Gene Edwards

  Spiritual, Prayer, Powerful

  Gene Edwards (2016). “The Gene Edwards Collection: A Tale of Three Kings / The Prisoner in the Third Cell / The Divine Romance”, p.40, NavPress

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• This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Health, Long, Wealth

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.

  Charles Duhigg

  Creating, Sparks, Habit

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.59, Random House

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• The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw over and over that my mind and body could be filled with desire and that no matter how intense the craving was it would always pass. I didn't have to satisfy every desire that arose in my mind. I began to understand impermanence through direct experience rather than just intellectual theory.

  Noah Levine

  Practice, Mind, Intellectual

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• Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the restorative tendence of nature on the one hand, or the injurious advance of disease on the other, it supplies the craving for activity, on the part of the patient and his friends, by the formal and regular administration of nominal medicine. Although homeopathy will, at some future time, be classed with historical delusions.

  Jacob Bigelow

  Hands, Medicine, Waiting

  Jacob Bigelow (1867). “Modern Inquiries, Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous”, p.231

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• The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Generations, Information, Bread

  Meg Wolitzer (2011). “The Uncoupling: A Novel”, p.16, Penguin

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• The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Fruit, Delicate

  Der Teutsche Merkur, Volume 20, p. 214, 1781.

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