Nagarjun Quotes

If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

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• The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Desire
  • Prayer
  • Without

• People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • People
  • Why
  • Power

• I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Death
  • Desire
  • Write

• The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • May
  • Desire
  • Eyes

• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Energy
  • Faith
  • Desire

• Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Desire
  • Problems

• Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Speak

• I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Past
  • Desire
  • Body

• Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Great
  • Love

• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • World
  • Desire

• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Purpose

• I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Together
  • Support
  • Desire

• Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Desire
  • Fame
  • Away

• I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Desire

• If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Politics

• My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Responsibility

• Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Creation

• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Live
  • Desire
  • Progress

• The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.

  

  Confucius
  • Guilt
  • Thinks
  • Wickedness

• Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste Stream down the snows, till the air is white, As, myriads by myriads madly chased, They fling themselves from their shadowy height. The fair, frail creatures of middle sky, What speed they make, with their grave so nigh; Flake after flake, To lie in the dark and silent lake!

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Dark
  • Lying
  • Snow

• If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

  

  Nagarjun
  • Desire