#desi

You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#desire #life #thinking #life

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking. ↗

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#letting #reject #struggle #to #want

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#desire #let us #minds #our #situation

The real distinction between being great and being less great seems to be the extent to which we are willing to be pushed along by our own desires. ↗

— Melanie Brown

#great-people #life

Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks. ↗

— Carla Bruni

#desire #love #men #women #love

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well. ↗

— James Dyson

#engineering-and-design #life #anger

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#greed #material #nourishment #food

Casey glanced at her plate again, recalling the posters of her elementary school lunchroom: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. So, how much you ate indicated the quantity of your desire. Walter was also implying that how quickly you got your food revealed the likelihood of achieving your goals. She was in fact terribly hungry, but she'd pretended to be otherwise to be ladylike and had moved away from the table to be agreeable, and now she'd continue to be hungry" (Free Food For Millionaires, p.92.) ↗

— Min Jin Lee

#hunger #women #food

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires. ↗

— Mark Epstein

#buddhism #desire #freedom #suffering #transcendence

Perhaps I was hosting my own personal sexual revolution. You know the kind that will not be televised. ↗

— Sabrina Childress

#freedom #revolution #sabrina-childress #sex #sexual-freedom