Quotes About Worldly Desires

#1. No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

Thomas Carlyle

#2. [Mankind has] allowed worldly desires and pleasures to fill the heart and mind. Whatever the sin, we need to repent and turn to Jesus Christ in faith for forgiveness and new life.

Billy Graham

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.

Rajneesh

#7. 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

#8. 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.

Nagarjuna

#9. 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

#10. The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the

Bill Gates

#11. Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.

Maynard James Keenan

#12. Just yesterday I stood at the window and watched him run across the field like a young deer. He is thin and agile. I think he will be forever young. He cannot be enticed by money or worldly goods; he desires nothing.

Nancy B. Brewer

#13. Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever recognises the worldly life, the trials and tribulations (of life) become slight for him.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#14. When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

Amelia Barr

#15. When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.

Terry Pratchett

#16. Time doesn't really soften anything. Memories heave up, you know. Still sharp."
"Forgetting takes practice," says Enid. "You have to work at it.

Helen Humphreys

#17. I just had sex with two guys within two days. Two insanely, sexy guys that I could only dream of even kissing.

Victoria Ashley

#18. When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

Bjorn Borg

#19. WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.

Oliver Cromwell

#20. If not music, I think it would be pretty cool to be an ear, nose and throat doctor.

David Archuleta

#21. I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It's demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you've got a cool action scene.

Jose Padilha

#22. He imagined that the great dark abyss of space was alive and that he might attract its attention if he stared too long into it - that it might twist and stir and fix its pitiless gaze upon him.

Tom Melly