Desire Quotes

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

To assert that we desire to bring about revolution in other countries, by interfering with their lives, is to speak of something which does not exist and which we never preach.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

You need good training partners - because you’re only as good as your training partners - and a strong desire to always get better.

The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.

From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.

If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Kiss me, please kiss me But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

Success comes from repeated efforts day in and day out. You learn from your mistakes, make adjustments and continue pressing forward until you achieve the results you desire.

Realise that your dreams of financial independence have already come true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of them.

I’m sick and tired of life with no desire. I don’t want a flame, I want a fire.

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.

Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerly believe and enthusiastically act upon ... must inevitably come to pass.

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

Why.. is human desire so unsatisfying?

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

Do I pray that the Lord gives me the desire to do his will, or do I look for compromises because I'm afraid of God's will?

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.