all the desires QUOTES

1 " Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship. "

― Rob Bell , Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality

2 " You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, so all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals… What foolish forgetfulness of mortality to defer wise resolutions to the fiftieth or sixtieth year, and to intend to begin life at a point to which few have attained. "

― Denis Diderot

3 " When is one considered to be in the awareness of ‘one’s own Self’? It is when all the desires become mild (when desires lessens). "

― Dada Bhagwan

4 " Now, if you open the treasure chest of desire, what do you find there? What do all the desires have in common? You. Go ahead and stop here and test it for a few days if you are really serious about the question. After you get past the first thousand, you begin to enter into a subtle territory, known as the border between desire and yearning. Or, if you want, between answers and questions. The defining quality, or essence, of desire is that it is engaged as if it were an answer. "

― Darrell Calkins , Re:

5 " Delight yourself in the Lord.
He shall give you all the desires of your heart. "

― Lailah Gifty Akita