Desire Quotes
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
All things are in the intended endpoint, and this mode of being is called will or desire.
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.
Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.
Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.
A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .
Happiness is when there is no hunger or want at all, when we're completely free of all hunger, desire, and want.
If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.
There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.
All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.
Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful romantic relationships for life.
Writing is one of the most ancient forms of prayer. To write is to believe communication is possible that other people are good, that you can awaken their generosity and their desire to do better.
If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with!
Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don't think you can teach anyone desire. I think it's a gift. I don't know why I have it, but I do.
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid
I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire
Life is too short to spend forty to fifty hours around people who do nothing but stress you out and make you desire to go stick your head in a blender.
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence.
I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.
You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.
No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.
There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.
You can develop a burning desire to succeed. How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.
Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.
Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits-and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire?
God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.
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.
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.