Desire Quotes

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.

My true desire is to relieve others of their pain, though I myself may fall into hell.

All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

Flood your mind continually with pictures of the health, happiness, and prosperity that you desire.

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.

Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.

Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?

Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.

We pursue that which retreats from us.

I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it's to be whole.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

Endeavors that help me satisfy you, my goddess of desire, pleasure, and corny one-liners.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond.

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it.

I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable

If you don't know what it is you're looking for you're NEVER going to find it. You have to be clear on what it is you're seeking.

One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can't breathe around it and you realize you don't need air.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

We want more than there is.

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.

When you would grab that last hole you could literally feel all of the hope, desire and stress drop off of you.

The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.