Desire Quotes

Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

A goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires.

Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.

A connection to Spirit restores your confidence, relieves your anxiety, and frees you from the desire to control everything in your life.

When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I'm not sure why, but they're like my kryptonite!

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.

The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society.

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.

I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.

Our desires are the way that the healing life force comes through us and replenishes our bodies.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.

The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.

Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.

...for everything can come to those who have the desire,the drive, the dedication, and the determination." v.c.andrews

We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.

Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.

People hunger for more attention. Full attention will be the aphrodisiac of the future.

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

God desires that we become spiritually healthy enough through faith to have a conscience that rightly interprets the work of the Holy Spirit.

We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue to be the most universally cherished aspiration of humankind.

I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.

Before you begin your day: Take a moment of silence and meditation, and give yourself permission to have all that you desire.

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated?

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.