A. S. Byatt Quotes

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul.

The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul wants happiness, perfect and pure happiness, because only then will all desires end. As long as desire exists misery exists, because with desire there can be no peace.

Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire.

Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.

If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love.

It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.

Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things.

The soul is love, joy. Joy. Peace. Wisdom.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.

Only love can bring us peace. And the experience of love is a choice we make, a mental decision to see love as the only real purpose and value in any situation.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

I don't feel active, and that my public conscience is fully satisfied.

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.