Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.

It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.

My Precious, my Precious.

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

The body is there because the mind seeks desires through the body; desires cannot be fulfilled without the body. You can be completely fulfilled without the body, but desires cannot be fulfilled without the body. Desire needs the body; the body is the vehicle of desire. That's why possession happens. You have heard, you must have heard, many stories about a ghost possessing somebody else. Why is a ghost so interested in possessing somebody else? It is because of desires. Desires cannot be fulfilled without a body, so he enters somebody's body to fulfill his desires.

You cannot possess all and everything. Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.

Write your script. When you see things you don't want, don't think about them, write about them, talk about them, push against them, or join groups that focus on the don't wants... remove your attention from don't wants.. and place them on do wants.

I didn't dare let my mind wander off.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

..... your real work is to decide what you want and then to focus upon it. For it is through focusing upon what you want that you will attract it. That is the process of creating

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. That wanting nearly drove me mad.” Patch paused, inhaling softly, as though breathing me in. “And now that I have you, the only thing that terrifies me is having to go back to that place. Having to want you all over again, with no hope of my desire ever being fulfilled. You’re mine, Angel. Every last piece of you. I won’t let anything change that.

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.

When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.