D. H. Lawrence Quotes

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

I can become so interested in what I have that I forget the needs of my soul.

Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! . . . What a mistake then to become a man! Vain have been my years - hundreds of years - of struggle only to become the man of sense-enjoyments.

The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.

Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive... You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole universe with your presence and there is no need for anybody.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.

Within you, you will find everything you need to be complete.

Am I the woman I think I am, the woman I want to be? More importantly, am I the woman the Savior needs me to be?

Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.

If you imagine Maslow's hierarchy of needs, if you can get all those requirements checked off and have all those amazing things that we need to just live lives, but actually get to do the thing that you're really passionate about.

Life without an ideal is spiritual death.

Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.

Our Creator has put in us hungers that this earth can- not satisfy. We cannot be completely self-contained on earth. Physical sense cannot give us a full life, nor can knowledge alone. No life is full unless it is linked to some- thing that goes on after we are dead.... If we have nothing more to live for than just to get ahead in a competitive system, then democracy will go down before other philosophies.

The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.

The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within. The lower our self-esteem, the more urgent the need to "prove" ourselves or to forget ourselves by living mechanically and unconsciously.

Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

The most good you can do for yourself spiritually is to live your life with total love, conviction, and purpose.

Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.