Worldly Desires Quotes

• 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

  Strength, Lying, Pride

  18 Copy quote

• 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

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

  17 Copy quote

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

  Rajneesh

  Desire, Foolish, Worldly

  16 Copy quote

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

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Desire, Controlled

  Twitter post from May 25, 2013

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Buddhist, Attachment, Meditation

  11 Copy quote

• 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

  Children, Wife, Islam

  11 Copy quote

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.712, Discovery House

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Dream, Believe, Home

  42 Copy quote

• No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ambition, Men, Desire

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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Nature, Men, Care

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.638, e-artnow

  77 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Prayer, Catholic, Mind

  15 Copy quote

• 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

  Soul, Mind, Desire

  119 Copy quote

• 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

  Cutting, Soul, Progress

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Beautiful, Jesus, Struggle

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Love, Self, Vision

  4 Copy quote