Desire Quotes
It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.
Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.
If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.
To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
The dead are happy, having no desire. I rise and fall, and rise and fall again, Something is in me, famishing for bread, Baffled and unappeasable as fire.
Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.
As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.
One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.
Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.
Manage your mind. When we direct our thoughts and words toward the outcome we most desire, we ignite grace.
People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.
All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.
Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.
Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.
Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.
In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us
When you make contact with your Higher Self, you'll have the support of Nature, which will allow for the manifestation of all you desire
The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.
One of the keystones of romantic love - and also of the ecstatic religion practiced by mystics - is the powerful desire to become one with the beloved.
What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?
I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.
Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.
Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.
There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.
A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.
If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.
The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.
Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.
This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter