Desire Quotes

I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.

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.

But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.

'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.

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.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.

Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.... - Comte de Toulouse

When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

Small, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love.

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires.

God's reason for creating Adam was the desire to reproduce himself.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

The wonder of Independence is that it encourages open minds and the desire to improve.

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.

When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

My request is not for bliss of the Garden. I only desire to see You.

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.

Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.

If you desire to see, learn how to act.

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.