Desire Quotes
There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
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.
One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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.
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.
We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.
...for everything can come to those who have the desire,the drive, the dedication, and the determination." v.c.andrews
Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.
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.
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.
First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.
The Jew is upset because the nations of the world - the United Nations - lash him, brand him as racist and evil, hate him and openly demonstrate their desire to destroy him.
It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.
I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.
Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.
There were times when deep down inside I wanted to win so badly I could actually will it to happen. I think most of my career has been based on desire.
I do not desire to die soon, because in Heaven there is no suffering. I desire to live a long time because I yearn to suffer much for the love of my Spouse.
When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.
I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.
Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.
As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.
Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.
Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.
To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.
As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.
Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.
Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.
All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.