Desire Quotes
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.
When you are in alignment with the desires of your heart, things have a way of working out.
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.
If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.
So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.
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.
They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
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?
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.
It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.
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.
They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days before a public appearance are to me.
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.
It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.
If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.
They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.
People will give themselves to prayer for numerous reasons, but at the core of it all is a God, raging with zealous desire.
The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving
I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.
I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
A person who is emotionally free has no desire to convince, cajole, insist, beg, seduce, manipulate or control. He/she is free to love
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.
One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.
Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.
