Desire Quotes
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.
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.
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.
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.
The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.
A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.
No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.
The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.
Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.
Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.
That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.
As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.
I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things
I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.
To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.
Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.
We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.
To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.
You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling.
The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.
I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.
To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
We just need to relax and rejoice in our divine differences. We need to realize that we all desire to serve in the kingdom, using our unique talents and gifts in our own ways.
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.
Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?
Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.
I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
