The Buddha has said : " There is more joy in one desire conquered than in a thousand desires satisfied "
	The Buddists Scriptures from the Chinese, tell us: “Let us watch over our thoughts.” “A bad thought is the most dangerous of thieves.”
	The Mahaparinibbana Sutta teaches thus: “To avoid the company of fools, to be in communion with the sages, to render honour to that which merits honour, is a great blessedness.”
	The Mahayana teaches thus: “When the disciple considering an idea sees rise in him bad or inhealthy thoughts, thoughts of covetousness, hatred or error, he should either turn his mind away from that idea, or concentrate it upon a healthy thought, or else examine the fatal nature of the idea, or analise it and decompose it into its different elements, or, making appeal to all his strength and applying the greatest energy, suppress it from his mind; these are removed and disappear these bad and unhealthy ideas and the mind becomes firm, calm unified full of vigour.”