Desire Quotes
I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.
My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things. ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.
Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.
The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.
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.
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.
Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires.
If I should be so blessed as to revisit again my own country, but more especially Manchester, all that I could hope or desire would be presented before in one view.
Act as if everything you desire is already here...treat yourself as if you already are what you'd like to become.
When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.
Your soul mate can turn into your cell mate if the mutual desire for growth isn't there.
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.
Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled... yes... the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.
The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women.
Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.
On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.
A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.
There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.
Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.
The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.
May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.
The fundamental misunderstanding of humanity is believing that we can achieve all our desires without limitation.
The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.
It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.
The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life.
...there is no everyday activity which does not aspire to be photographed, filmed or videotaped. For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.
The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.