So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.
Future arises out of your misery, not out of your celebration. A really celebrating person has no future; he lives this moment, he lives it totally. Out of that total living arises the next moment, but it is not out of any lust. Of course, when out of celebration the next moment arises, it has more capacity to bless you. When out of celebration the future arises, it goes on becoming more and more rich. And a moment comes when the moment is so total, so whole, that time completely disappears.
When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.
I wonder what the difference is between love and lust.
Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.
Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below the threshold of awareness that initiated an unusual event or gave one a curious half sensed feeling that something was about to happen just before it did. The magician seeks to exploid this effect deliberately, but in doing so he must avoid doing it deliberately as it were. Conscious lust of result destroys magical effect, so trickery must be employed to annul it and to activate the subconscious.
A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.
But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
True Love gives you Peace! It doesn't consume you with anxiety, that's lust!
For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.
I don't require lust, sex, or classic beauty; I require trust, respect, and honesty. All else builds from there.
Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.
What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?
He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.
The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.
It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.
Unless we cut the world population there is no way to avoid violence. People are hungry, people are starving, dying. When somebody is hungry he is going to steal. When somebody is dying, what does he care if he kills somebody else and gets money to survive? - because lust for life is the basis of all biological growth. A man can do anything to survive.
The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence.