Desire Quotes

The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

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.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.

The fundamental misunderstanding of humanity is believing that we can achieve all our desires without limitation.

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.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

Put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, what do I want? The first thing that comes to mind is always the right one.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.

The key to all motivation is desire, and the master key to creating desire is responsiveness to the needs, desires, and interests of the people you would lead.

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all imagination, is to be free from future.

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

I love being in a brothers band. I have no desire to move away from it at all.

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively.

Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.

It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.

Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing, save in the fixing of the sight and hearing on that which is invisible and soundless.

It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . .

To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.

Women must destroy in themselves, the desire to be loved-

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.

We need to be homesick for heaven. Though we have never been there, we still have something God has built within us that gives us a certain homesickness, a desire to be there.

Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend; Nor services to do till you require.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.