Desire Quotes
No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo
Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.
Offer a vibration that matches your desire rather than offering a vibration that keeps matching what-is.
To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.
When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.
It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.
He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.
Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.
I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I’m not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.
The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
What keeps me going? I guess it's just a desire to keep trying to contribute and do things in life.
When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.
My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.
A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.
No settlement with the majority community is possible, as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.
Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.
There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.
It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.
I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.
.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.
There is a universal urge for intimacy, for trading subjectivities, in communication. For Telepathy. Our desire for it tells us about what we wish to be: truly intersubjective beings.
We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.
The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.
Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us.
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.
Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.
