Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

No matter who you are or what your position you must keeping fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander.

Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of human existence.

The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing. To allow that you do not know it—this is knowledge.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.