Desire Quotes
From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.
In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.
The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.
Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.
The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.
Everyone surrounding you has gone through similar things. The search for love or the desire to have a family or the loss of a child.
If you desire to become a more generous person, don't wait for your income to change. Change your heart.
The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.
Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.
What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.
People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.
If you make love with the divine now, in the next lifeyou will have the face of satisfied desire.
Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.
We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.
I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.
Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!
We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.
It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.
We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.
The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.
You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye.
The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sustains each soul and all of life.
You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.
The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.
Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist.
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery
Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?
Training for me is a metaphor for life, period. The dedication, the determination, the desire, the work ethic, the great successes and the great failures - I take that into life.
Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.
My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.
This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.
Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.