Lust Quotes - Page 30

• Future arises out of your misery, not out of your celebration. A really celebrating person has no future; he lives this moment, he lives it totally. Out of that total living arises the next moment, but it is not out of any lust. Of course, when out of celebration the next moment arises, it has more capacity to bless you. When out of celebration the future arises, it goes on becoming more and more rich. And a moment comes when the moment is so total, so whole, that time completely disappears.

  Rajneesh

  Goes On, Next, Becoming

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• Solyndra will be remembered in the history books as a sad hallmark of a newly installed administration that felt it was above the rules, lusting for positive headlines rather than focused on delivering results.

  Fred Upton

  Book, Administration, Hallmark

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• The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

  Erich Fromm

  Power, Weakness, Good And Evil

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.166, Open Road Media

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• Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can injure yourself, volatile energies that serve as separations between yourself and perfect stillness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Buddhism, Reality

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• Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Hatred

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• Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.

  Randeep Hooda

  Love Is, Two, People

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• It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Proof, Crass

  William Faulkner (2011). “Selected Short Stories”, p.270, Modern Library

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• The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust.

  Bill Vaughan

  Beautiful, Running, Sex

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• There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe — and I do believe — that the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

  Rachel Carson

  Believe, Humility, Reality

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.94, Beacon Press

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• But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to return to its own solitude. Like all the sins, it also makes us solitary. It is self-abdication at the very core of one's own being, a surrender of our need and ability to give and receive. Lust does not come with open hands, certainly not with an open heart. It comes only with open legs.

  Henry Fairlie

  Morning, Heart, Doors

  Henry Fairlie (2015). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”, p.128, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Pride, Idols

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.58

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• Love is more cruel than lust.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Love Is

  'Dolores' (1866) st. 20

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• Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Humility, Buddhism

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• The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Yoga, Self

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• They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Fighting, Sacrifice, D Day

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress

  Umar

  Wisdom, Ocean, Islamic

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• It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.

  Ava Gardner

  Believe, Simple, Pity

  Ava Gardner, Peter Evans (2013). “Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.

  Carl Sagan

  Truth, Ignorance, People

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• Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.

  John F. MacArthur

  Integrity, Discipline, Mind

  John F. MacArthur (2012). “Moments of Truth: Unleashing God's Word One Day at a Time”, p.328, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you are in relationship with people, in a thousand and one ways you are provoked, challenged, seduced. Again and again you come to know your pitfalls, your limitations, your anger, your lust, your possessiveness, your jealousy, your sadness, your happiness all moods come and go, you are constantly in a turmoil. But this is the only way to know who you are.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Sadness, People

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• Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being a recovered bulimic."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Self Esteem, Pride, Relaxation

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The CEO of the Sofa”, p.105, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm tryna do it all tonight, I got plans. I got a certain lust for life, and as it stands.

  Drake

  Life, Humble, Tonight

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• People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.

  Rumi

  Reality, People, Desire

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild, Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child; Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts, Before the play, or else between the acts; Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds Should spring such short and transitory kinds.

  Jonathan Swift

  Children, Spring, Play

  Jonathan Swift (1801). “The Works of of the Rev. Jonathan Swift”, p.411

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• Any who pretend to assume to engage in plural marriage in this day, when the one holding the keys has withdrawn the power by which they are performed, are guilty of gross wickedness. Thy are living in adultery, have already sold their souls to Satan, and (whether their acts are based on ignorance or lust or both) they will be damned in eternity.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Ignorance, Keys, Soul

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